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Clarice Lispector

4.04 AVERAGE

emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

What did I just read? I feel like throwing up. How can words sound so beautiful and yet be so violent?
mysterious reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark funny sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

just absolutely fantastic

"Eu, que simbolicamente morro várias vezes só para experimentar a ressurreição."
reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
sad medium-paced
challenging reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A meditation on how life's supposed to go, what it means to do enough, and why being a writer makes you such an asshole. Lispector takes on the voice of a self-obsessed male writer trying (and failing) to write a female character, but that wildly funny and unique roundabout genderpol is never the foreground--the writer's own pompous thoughts on loss and life, and the female character's truth boiling through the dozen carny narrative filters, is.
inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes