The Apple in the Dark

Lispector is the premier Latin American woman prose writer of this century * The New York Times Book Review * Lispector-like Beckett, or, to a degree, Kafka-strips language to the bone, in search of some kind of metaphysical core or nucleus. Her laconic, almost aphoristic syntax is, at times, full of a brutal sense of humor and at times disquieting. Lispector is one of those rare writers who can simply tell a story -- Valeria Luiselli * Publishers Weekly * Clarice Lispector left behind an astounding body of work that has no real corollary inside literature or outside it -- Rachel Kushner * Bookforum * Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself * TLS * Brilliant and unclassifiable: glamorous, cultured, moody, Lispector is an emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce -- Edmund White One of the true originals of Latin American literature -- Terrence Rafferty * The New York Times Book Review * A genius on the level of Nabokov -- Jeff VanderMeer * Slate * Sphinx, sorceress, sacred monster. The revival of the hypnotic Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the twenty-first century -- Parul Seghal * The New York Times * I felt physically jolted by genius -- Katherine Boo Utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing -- Colm Tóibín Brilliant, demanding, tempestuous, relentless, exultant -- Martin Riker * The New York Times * It's not enough to say that Lispector bends language or uses words in new ways. Plenty of modernists do that. No one else writes prose this rich -- Lily Meyer * NPR *