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A review by sarahgamal666
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
5.0
I read this back in 2020 and since then I've opened the book 3 more times but only finished it twice. first time I read it I honestly was not expecting what I plunged into. it was absolutely nothing like I'd ever (or have ever) read before. it's poetry but in the form of steam of consciousness essays yet not prose. it's a book of thought and admiration of existence and the world.
Clarice focuses on the "now" and the instance and the creation of the unknown next instance "For I want to feel in my hands the quivering and lively nerve of the now and may that nerve resist me like a restless vein."
she speaks of the freedom that she doesn't know how to use "But I also want inconsistency. Freedom? it’s my final refuge, I forced myself to freedom and I bear it not like a talent but with heroism: I’m heroically free. And I want the flow. I’m a little frightened. For I don’t know where my freedom will lead me."
and how every moment of her being is built on savouring the delights of existing
"A fantastical world surrounds me and is me. What a fever: I can’t stop living."
this isn't really a philosophical book but not entirely not one because of the fleeting of each ideology that is mentioned those that stick honestly leave you wondering and thinking.
I cannot seriously ever get to the end of ranting about this book. it changed the way I view the world and my own existence and I'm eternally grateful for the girl who recommended it.
Clarice focuses on the "now" and the instance and the creation of the unknown next instance "For I want to feel in my hands the quivering and lively nerve of the now and may that nerve resist me like a restless vein."
she speaks of the freedom that she doesn't know how to use "But I also want inconsistency. Freedom? it’s my final refuge, I forced myself to freedom and I bear it not like a talent but with heroism: I’m heroically free. And I want the flow. I’m a little frightened. For I don’t know where my freedom will lead me."
and how every moment of her being is built on savouring the delights of existing
"A fantastical world surrounds me and is me. What a fever: I can’t stop living."
this isn't really a philosophical book but not entirely not one because of the fleeting of each ideology that is mentioned those that stick honestly leave you wondering and thinking.
I cannot seriously ever get to the end of ranting about this book. it changed the way I view the world and my own existence and I'm eternally grateful for the girl who recommended it.