The Foreign Legion : stories and chronicles /
"The Foreign Legion is a collection in two parts, gathering both stories and chronicles, and it offers wonderful evidence of Clarice Lispector's unique sensibility and range as an exponent of experimental prose. The Foreign Legion opens with thirteen stories. Delightful, vivid, sometimes m...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translation, from Portuguese of: A Legião Estrangeira. |
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Manchester :
Carcanet,
1986.
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| Summary: | "The Foreign Legion is a collection in two parts, gathering both stories and chronicles, and it offers wonderful evidence of Clarice Lispector's unique sensibility and range as an exponent of experimental prose. The Foreign Legion opens with thirteen stories. Delightful, vivid, sometimes mordantly funny, sometimes sad beyond words... The second part of the book presents her newspaper crônicas, which Lispector said she retrieved from a bottom drawer. She offers them as shards, as suggestions, but they are in fact brilliant essays on Brazilian art and society, evocations of her world, conversations with her children, aphorisms -- a rich miscellany. Together the stories and chronicles create a showcase of Lispector's talents to amuse and disturb."--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Legião Estrangeira. |
| Physical Description: | 219 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0856356271 9780856356278 |