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ISBN-10: 0811228711
ISBN-13: 9780811228718
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 05/28/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.50" W, 0.80" H

The Chandelier

Translator: Magdalena Edwards
Translator: Benjamin Moser

Paperback

Price: $16.95

Overview

The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of “Hurricane Clarice.”
Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a decaying country mansion. They leave for the city, but the change of locale leaves Virginia’s internal life unperturbed. In intensely poetic language, Lispector conducts a stratigraphic excavation of Virginia’s thoughts, revealing the drama of Clarice’s lifelong quest to discover “the nucleus made of a single instant”–and displaying a new face of this great writer, blazing with the vitality of youth.

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Lispector's signature narrative style, which borders on stream-of-consciousness, is the vehicle for Virginia's existential dilemmas and her observations about a world from which she often seems removed. The Chandelier includes all the earmarks of Lispector's other work, too: a deep anguish, a search for the heart of human existence, and the unbearable weight of a solitude that is imperative to ultimate freedom.–Eric Becker "Americas Quarterly"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811228711
ISBN-13: 9780811228718
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 05/28/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.50" W, 0.80" H
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