FAMILY TIES by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (Trans) ( 9780292724488 )

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Title:

FAMILY TIES

By:

Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (Trans)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0292724489

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9780292724488

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Pub. date:

1 June, 1972

Series:

Texas Pan American Series

Pages:

160

Translated from:

Portuguese

Description:

Thirteen of Lispector's most brilliantly conceived stories

Synopsis:

The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year.The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward her elderly mother. An adolescent girl's obsessive fear of being looked at. The "giddying sense of compassion" that a blind man introduces into a young housewife's settled existence. Of such is made the world of Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer whose finest work is acknowledged to be her exquisitely crafted short stories. Here, in these thirteen of Lispector's most brilliantly conceived stories, mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition. Her characters mirror states of mind. Alienated by their unsettling sense of life's absurdity, they seem at times absorbed in their interior lives and in the passions that dominate and usually defeat them.

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University of Texas Press

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