passionfrut 's review for:

Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

5.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective 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

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I'm full of acacias swaying yellow, and I who have barely started my journey, I start it with a sense of tragedy, guessing toward which lost ocean my steps of life are leading.

people said the clarice lispector reading experience is like being in a dream. this book, however, made me feel like i was accessing someone else's memory – with the way she described time and place, atmosphere and feeling.

it's philosophical nature made me float into a tangent of what ifs? and how abouts? but the conversational style (addressing "you" and "i") grounded me to remind the essence of those questions: about how i feel about life, and how i can treat life as it is. i can just be.