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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
'Who hasn't ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?'
one of the most horrifying yet glorious little books I've ever read. thank you Clarice
one of the most horrifying yet glorious little books I've ever read. thank you Clarice
I kind of want to live inside Clarice Lispector's prose. Makes me want to learn Portuguese so I can read the original which is not something I've ever thought before.
“Este livro é um silêncio. Este livro é uma pergunta.”
Ler Clarice é uma experiência muito nova para mim e ver o modo como ela escreve nesse livro é fantástico e assombroso. Como eu tive que ler para uma disciplina do curso, já tinha que ter um outro olhar e fiquei simplesmente sem palavras no final para poder falar sobre a obra. Algo que me tocou muito foi justamente essa não linearidade, a história não parece fluir do começo ao fim, a pessoa não sabe o nome da personagem principal e nem entende a função do narrador na vivência dela. É uma leitura que pede várias releituras e digo que muito provavelmente cada releitura vai trazer uma visão um pouco distinta das outras. E pensar no quão poderosa é a literatura para provocar essa sensação na gente.
Ler Clarice é uma experiência muito nova para mim e ver o modo como ela escreve nesse livro é fantástico e assombroso. Como eu tive que ler para uma disciplina do curso, já tinha que ter um outro olhar e fiquei simplesmente sem palavras no final para poder falar sobre a obra. Algo que me tocou muito foi justamente essa não linearidade, a história não parece fluir do começo ao fim, a pessoa não sabe o nome da personagem principal e nem entende a função do narrador na vivência dela. É uma leitura que pede várias releituras e digo que muito provavelmente cada releitura vai trazer uma visão um pouco distinta das outras. E pensar no quão poderosa é a literatura para provocar essa sensação na gente.
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Need to re-read this a million times. Language like a forest. Need to read more of her but I liked this?
the additional material that was added for the centennial edition by ND made me enjoy the actual novel/novella much more. all three essays (and the fourth, the introduction by clarice herself) were useful and troubling, full of earworm turns of phrase that i won't be forgetting anytime soon.
the story itself is weird. i am curious about what everyone describes as lispector's "foreignness"...foreign to what? Brazil? Jewishness? Ruralness/urbanness? Literature? it's unclear. i was just saying to Tris that the current obsession with Lispector makes me think a lot about the obsession with Benjamin a decade ago -- reading Lispector in the midst of a cultural obsession with her makes it more difficult to read her.
do i like Lispector aesthetically? in this text, no. it feels unpolished and rambling in a way that comes off as pretentious, rather than honest/raw. however, i maybe only feel that way because of this larger cultural obsession with her, because i'm reading phrases that feel very "meaning-oriented" and i can practically see these phrases being chosen for new novel epigraphs or ig captions/photo montage inserts.
there is something about lispector that is magnetic, or just so tricky that i want to keep reading in order to unravel it. i'll read more of her work, but not soon. i'm glad to have encountered her in this book, which i didn't necessarily like but which i definitely responded to, page by page. so the 4 stars are for the book's ability to elicit that responsiveness from me.
the story itself is weird. i am curious about what everyone describes as lispector's "foreignness"...foreign to what? Brazil? Jewishness? Ruralness/urbanness? Literature? it's unclear. i was just saying to Tris that the current obsession with Lispector makes me think a lot about the obsession with Benjamin a decade ago -- reading Lispector in the midst of a cultural obsession with her makes it more difficult to read her.
do i like Lispector aesthetically? in this text, no. it feels unpolished and rambling in a way that comes off as pretentious, rather than honest/raw. however, i maybe only feel that way because of this larger cultural obsession with her, because i'm reading phrases that feel very "meaning-oriented" and i can practically see these phrases being chosen for new novel epigraphs or ig captions/photo montage inserts.
there is something about lispector that is magnetic, or just so tricky that i want to keep reading in order to unravel it. i'll read more of her work, but not soon. i'm glad to have encountered her in this book, which i didn't necessarily like but which i definitely responded to, page by page. so the 4 stars are for the book's ability to elicit that responsiveness from me.