Exxon Lecture Series: Stream Of Life (Paperback)

from carioca

This is one of masterpieces of Clarice Lispector, a personal favorite author of mine. The novel has that same form of interior dialogue that characterizes Lispector's work. Agua Viva is in fact a book that deals with the struggle of writing and of creating at the same time it deals with the prota...

from DavidCLDriedger

Makes me wonder if we gave up on our stupid high school questions about life too soon. The questions remain, we can either sit with them or ignore them.

from librarianbryan

Wow. I've been working on this since July. Lispector is trying to capture with words what you can do with painting. Good luck. She just can't keep up the ecstatic soul cracking for any sustained length and it sort of devolves into what I was afraid PKD's Exegesis was going to be. There are some g...

from stillatim

A fascinating attempt to write a philosophical 'novel,' and one which should appeal to readers of the Camuses and Satres as well as those searching for new forms! I say attempt, because I'm pretty sure this is a failed attempt! Lispector's translators all bemoan the difficulty of getting her idio...