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Laços de Família by Clarice Lispector

jlmila's review against another edition

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

3.0

Beautiful descriptive writing but I just was not interested in most of the short stories. “Preciousness” though❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥😭 

vizz_'s review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

catarinalobo's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

4.0

samwreads's review against another edition

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2.0

A couple very pretty stories but for the most part not really my cup of tea. Lispector focuses more on the minutiae and emotional interiors of her characters than any real story or dialogue. I thought I would like it but it never really clicked and I didn't find any of the characters all that interesting. The book's back cover says that Lispector's art found its apex in her short fiction but it seems to me that it would do better in novel form when given her emotional-interior set pieces could be given free reign.

My favorite stories were The Chicken (for its humor and comparative lightness), Preciousness (for the imagery and descriptive beauty), and The Crime of the Mathematics Professor (because I actually found the emotional struggle and decisions of the main character realistic and compelling).



lefthandedlady's review against another edition

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dark funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

gardenofadonis's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

i am forever broken and ill re-read this a bunch more times so my pieces get broken into smaller ones.

j_elphaba's review

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3.0

Acho que não sou demasiado ousada ao afirmar que Clarice Lispector e diferente de qualquer outro autor, quer na sua escrita, quer na forma como aborda as mais diversas temáticas. Dito isto, para quem procura entretenimento, esta é provavelmente um leitura que se estranha e que dificilmente será compreendida.
Eu escolhi este título porque já conhecia alguns dos seus contos sendo, portanto, uma oportunidade de reler e voltar a encontrar um prazer esquecido há mais de uma década. Não vou mentir, num sentido lúdico senti-me bastante desiludida, mas didaticamente foi muito interessante.
Os contos que mais gostei foram “Feliz Aniversário”, “A Menor Mulher do Mundo” que considero extraordinário, “Preciosidade”, “Laços de Família” e “O Crime do Professor de Matemática”.
Lispector consegue muitas vezes frustrar quem procura a redenção das personagens, alguma afetividade ou valores que serão eternamente debatidos. Embora faça da mulher (nas diversas fases da sua vida) uma das suas figuras centrais, deixa-a sempre estacionada num local secundário. Envolve-a em desejos, sonhos e divagações crescentes, íntimas, mas termina sempre com o seu papel inalterado. É quase distópico e sem dúvida uma critica ao papel que lhe é sempre representativo.
Apesar de muitos afirmarem que os contos são o seu forte, confesso que fiquei com vontade de ler um registo diferente, talvez uma grande narrativa para saber se conseguiria um envolvimento mais com o texto, pois aqui, confesso, isso nunca chegou verdadeiramente a acontecer.

ledg's review against another edition

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emotional funny mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

The chicken story is my favourite of all time 

sorayasklya's review against another edition

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

4.5

eren_reads's review against another edition

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

3.75