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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
reflective
medium-paced
She describes in paradoxical and iterative language the full realization of the Self as the Absolute using the death of a cockroach as the object (or subject!) of reflection. Awareness presenting itself to itself. The book is meant to be intuited and felt, not analyzed or scrutinized rationally. The way she brings human experiences that major world religions/philosophies disregard as an obstacle to enlightenment (desire, personality, language) to its opposite light as the way to self-remembrance is very reminiscent of Shivaist philosophy. God is not Transcendent but Immanent, God is expressed as consciousness and dancing in the objects of it instead of being in a long awaited heaven, it expresses itself as creation, destruction, and human experience.
This is the third Lispector book I’ve read and it definitely has been my favorite.
This is the third Lispector book I’ve read and it definitely has been my favorite.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Clarice... a mulher que você foi.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is absolutely a five star read and I’ve never read anything like it. I will definitely be reading more of Clarice Lispector’s works. But I am deducting one star for the stomach-churning cockroach imagery because I don’t need that in my life.
I got the sense I probably would have enjoyed this more if I'd read Spinoza first. A few sentences I was delighted to read surrounded by pages and pages of nothing happening. I hope it's not an admission of bad taste that this novel on the whole kind of bored me