A review by spacey_kate
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.5

The moon is gauche. It’s to your left as you go in.

I genuinely get put into a trance about ten pages into this book and instantly fall asleep. It's like magic. While it had beautiful poetic writing and some thought provoking moments, I found a lot of it to be annoying and repetitive.

So writing is the method of using the word as bait: the word fishing for whatever is not word. When this non-word—between the lines— takes the bait, something has been written. Once whatever is between the lines is caught, the word can be tossed away in relief.