Reviews

Der Lüster by Luis Ruby, Clarice Lispector

stegosaurusbex's review against another edition

3.0

i am void of energy to describe this book. over saturated with descriptions of the mundane maybe <200 pages is a better format for clarice lispector. ALSO THE ENDING DID NOT IMPRESS ME BECAUSE I JUST READ THE HOUR OF THE STAR AND IT MADE BOTH BOOKS LESS GOOD

lullabies's review against another edition

3.0

 é muito difícil saber o que dizer sobre esse aqui, pois é um livro feito apenas de interioridades, mesmo quando a cena retratada é no mundo de fora dos personagens. é um livro muito cheio, tão cheio que ele transborda da página o tempo inteiro, as preenchendo de maneira tão resoluta e desesperada. isso faz da leitura muito cansativa, mas acho que é a intenção: aqui a forma imita o sentimento, como é o caso de muitos livros de modernistas. 

apesar de tudo isso, eu não consigo dizer se eu sequer gostei do livro ou da minha experiência com ele. sei que vou guardar a experiência comigo e talvez esse guardar me dê uma resposta mais clara sobre o que passamos juntos.

essayist's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.0

444ndromeda's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

exhaustivo and sometimes dragged out, compensado por el monólogo interno de la protagonista y el tono característico de lispector que te comienza a respirar en la nuca. let’s have more of women and less of men, though.

chloew94's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

ericfheiman's review against another edition

3.0

Lispector certainly has a style and syntax all her own. This book was a fever-dream of a reading experience. But does it ultimately add up to literature as transcendent as likeminded authors like Woolf, Faulkner, or Joyce (to start)? I’m not so sure...(or my patience for such literature has been eroded in my old age.)

opmemoeder's review against another edition

2.0

Soooo hard to get into I’m still going to give another book of hers a chance as I do think she has an unique writing style and can see the talent but this one … I’m happy it’s finally done.

wildgurl's review against another edition

4.0

The Chadelier
By Clarice Lispector
1946
New Directions Book

This was not an easy read. It takes a certain focus to get through....it takes the reader not just into the lives of the characters, but into their psyche and thinking processes, and their daily mental escape, exhausted from living. Do many amazing and profound paragraphs. I'm sure many will give up on this because of the focus it takes, but for those that do read and finish it, this book will knock you over and leave you breathless. The ending will blow your mind.

This is the first time the book has been translated to English and published in th USA.

agneix's review against another edition

4.0

"She would be fluid through her whole life" it starts Virginia's journey. The fluidity of the narrative depends on our main character's decision: by the time she decides one thing, the narrative takes a turn so that later on there's another decision to be made. There is no such thing as bad writing for Clarice, but this was very hard to go through. Very dense and sometimes slow paced, we follow (mostly) Virginia's thinking process; sometimes we get a look into other carachters' mind and there never is a slight change in the narrative. It's all fluid.

convoswithkara's review against another edition

5.0

it’s like if you told virginia woolf to write an elena ferrante novel. absolutely bizarre and absolutely gorgeous. women going insane remains my fav genre