An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler

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Penguin
02 July 2021

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Romance

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

A boundary-breaking, riveting romance narrative from the seminal Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector

A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro makes a connection that will change her life. Ulisses, a mysterious man, has penetrated her soul and turned her inside out.

This is a devastating novel of the interior, of a woman yearning to love, of the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, of the cosmic changes that enrich us and destroy us at the dawn of love.

By: Clarice Lispector
Translated by: Stefan Tobler
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 123g
ISBN: 9780241371367
ISBN 10: 0241371368
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 02 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943 when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Gra a Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.

Reviews for An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures teaches us how to love. And how love lies in spaces. In waiting -- Carlos Valladares * Gagosian Quarterly *