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Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

nesty's review

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4.0

*3.5

callmeash_94's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

taransamarth's review against another edition

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5.0

What if poem but long. So good. Big fan

pilsdoughey's review against another edition

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3.0

Hard to say too much about a boom without plot or characters, but in reading it came at a nice time after Moby Dick. Sometimes fun to float along through something that doesn’t have a particular destination in mind, and some nice passages throughout to think on.

mosaicbrokenhearts's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

5.0

gianni_francis's review against another edition

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2.0

DNF

Admittedly nonsense. Anachronistic 1970s rebellion culture garbage "poetry." Could be read in any order, but it's better not read at all.

spacestationtrustfund's review against another edition

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3.0

I am what I am,
I am sinful I am virtuous,
I am filth I am unstained,
I am ugly I am beautiful,
I am chaos I am order,
I am despair I am exultation,
I am black I am white,
I am privileged I am underprivileged,
I am fortune I am unfortune,
I am fire I am water,
I am tree I am obelisk,
I am earth I am sky,
I am the Sun I am the Moon,
I am fragment I am the whole,
I am extinct I am existing,
I am created I am annihilated,
I am known I am unknown,
I am success I am failure,
I am body I am soul,
I am logic I am nonsense,
I am captive I am free,
I am sorrow I am joy,
I am devil I am god,
I am heaven I am hell,
I am consciousness I am unconsciousness,
I am existence I am nothingness,
I am intermittent I am perpetual,
I am moment I am forever,
I was ever I will be ever,
I am dead I am alive,
I am death I am life,
I am finite I am infinite,
I am what universe comprises of
I am what universe is: I am the universe.
— Clarice "I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint, I do not feel ashamed, I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between" Lispector

loldesh's review against another edition

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3.0

Lispector'ın tarzı aynı kafam çok karışık olduğu zamanlarda yazdığım yarım yamalak, bir türlü tamamlanmayan cümlelerim/dosyalarım gibi. Belki de bu yüzden kendime yakın ve daha kızgın hissediyorum çünkü elime aldığım her kitabında yazarın favorim olmasını diliyorum/istiyorum, olmuyor.
Beklenti düşman resmen. Ressssmen.

Gol değil.

emiliasbg's review against another edition

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I find it so ridiculous to believe that this book was published 3 years before Cixous’ Laugh of the Medusa. This book exercises so many of the elements that would definite “feminine ecriture”. Incredible.

borbia's review against another edition

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challenging lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0