A review by j_ata
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector

4.0

Gorgeously written (I jotted down countless quotes & phrases), but wild & bewildering—there's something deliberately elusive & even evasive about the narrative technique, which often felt like trying to grasp at quicksilver as it flows between the fingers. Can only liken it to Woolf at her most ecstatic, only for 320 pages straight. Which is, to put it bluntly, both extremely impressive & a lot (perhaps too much?).

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