Clarice Lispector

Brazílska spisovateľská legenda Clarice Lispector písala poviedky počas celej svojej kariéry. V tejto knihe nájdete mnohé z jej najznámejších a najúspešnejších poviedok – od prvej, ktorú napísala ako devätnásťročné dievča, až po výber z tých, ktoré písala v posledných rokoch života. Texty, charakteristické intenzívnymi okamihmi introspekcie, odrážajú jej jedinečný pohľad na svet a ľudskú psychiku, ako aj neutíchajúcu túžbu pochopiť zmysel ľudskej existencie. Tento výber je inšpiratívnym vstupom do fascinujúceho sveta jednej z najnezvyčajnejších literárnych osobností dvadsiateho storočia. Vybrané poviedky prvýkrát vyšli v diele Všetky poviedky (2019). Tvorbu prekladu z verejných zdrojov podporil Fond na podporu umenia. Clarice Lispector bola obdarená výnimočnou inteligenciou, vizionárskym inštinktom a zmyslom pre humor, v ktorom sa striedal naivný úžas so zlomyseľnou komikou. Rachel Kushner

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' - Colm Tóibín A housewife’s life is shattered by a sudden epiphany. A simple tale of killing cockroaches fragments into multiple narratives, each uncovering new truths. In this selection of haunting short stories, Lispector reveals the permeable boundaries between past and present, the real and the surreal, showing ordinary moments to contain the deepest existential truths.

Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece 'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it fall' Martim, believing that he has committed a murder, flees the city and escapes into the night. Wandering through the vastness of nature he arrives, in a state of fear and wonder, at a remote ranch run by two women. There Martim finds work and, as he labours in the blistering heat of the Brazilian summer, becomes transfigured; remade into something else entirely. Translated by Benjamin Moser

A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life 'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, the internationally renowned author Clarice Lispector wrote weekly dispatches from her desk in Rio for the Jornal do Brasil. Already famous for her revolutionary, interior, metaphysical novels and short stories, in her Chronicles she turned her attention to the everyday, reshaping the material of her life into profound, touching and funny, tiny revelations. Observing the world around her, small encounters like hearing tales of the lost loves of a taxi driver, or the bitterness lurking beneath the prettiness of an old friend, become an exposition of the currents and foibles that define our lives. Everything from the meaning of cosmonauts to the new ideas, writers and artists that populate the sparkling international world of the sixties and seventies are considered and transformed into jewels of insight, delight and devastation. Sincere and playful, exhilarating and contemplative, Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles opens up a new way of seeing the world.

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a tangled mother-daughter relationship; a man's abandonment of a dog; an animal in a zoo: each one leads to mystery and self-discovery, delight and devastation.

Martim spáchal zločin. Skrýva sa v brazílskom vnútrozemí, najprv v zabudnutom prázdnom hoteli, potom na osamelom statku. Usiluje sa začať celkom odznova, na samom začiatku, poprieť celú svoju predchádzajúcu existenciu a využiť svoj skutok na úplnú obnovu. Pritom naráža na hranice jazyka, na veci i pocity, ktoré nemajú meno. Clarice Lispector sa v románe Jablko v tme ponára do ľudského vnútra, pokúša sa vysloviť nevypovedateľné a priblížiť sa k našej najhlbšej podstate. Písanie vníma ako pokus, ktorým sa chce dotknúť základov sveta a „chytiť jablko v tme, bez toho aby spadlo“. Román získal Cenu Carmem Dolores Barbosovej za najlepšiu knihu roka 1961. Preklad a vydanie publikácie z verejných zdrojov podporil Fond na podporu umenia. Clarice Lispector je jedným zo skrytých géniov literatúry dvadsiateho storočia... Jej príbehy a tvorivé postupy sú nanajvýš originálne a brilantné, podmanivé a znepokojivé. Colm Tóibín Bohatosť Jablka v tme vzdoruje i najprenikavejšej vysvetľovacej schopnosti akejkoľvek interpretácie. Literárna príloha The Times Keď ju človek číta po prvý raz, môže nadobudnúť pocit, že ho vedú cestičkou smerujúcou k ezoterickým záhadám, ktoré nikto nikdy celkom neosvetlí. Predstavujem si, ako si najoddanejší čitatelia Clarice v rámci akejsi bibliomancie otvárajú jej knihy na náhodných stranách, aby im jej strhujúce riadky ukázali iný uhol pohľadu na život sťa tarotová karta vytiahnutá z balíčka. Katrina Dodson

"That woman who killed the fish unfortunately is me," begins the title story, but "if it were my fault, I'd own up to you, since I don't lie to boys and girls. I only lie sometimes to a certain type of grownup because there's no other way." Enumerating all the animals she's loved-cats, dogs, lizards, chickens, monkeys-Clarice finally asks: "Do you forgive me?" "The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit" is a detective story that explains that bunnies think with their noses: for a single idea a bunny might "scrunch up his nose fifteen thousand times" (he may not be too bright, but "he's not foolish at all when it comes to making babies"). The third tale, "Almost True," is a shaggy dog yarn narrated by a pooch who is very worried about a wicked witch: "I am a dog named Ulisses and my owner is Clarice." The wonderful last story, "Laura's Intimate Life" stars "the nicest hen I've ever seen." Laura is "quite dumb," but she has her "little thoughts and feelings. Not a lot, but she's definitely got them. Just knowing she's not completely dumb makes her feel all chatty and giddy. She thinks that she thinks." A one-eyed visitor from Jupiter arrives and vows Laura will never be eaten: she's been worrying, because "humans are a weird sort of person" who can love hens and eat them, too. Such throw away wisdom abounds: "Don't even get me started." These delightful, high-hearted stories, written for her own boys, have charm to burn and are a treat for every Lispector reader.

The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when they don't. There are various ways of knowing by not-knowing. I know: it happens to me too. The cronica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers (or even soccer stars) to address a wide readership on any theme they like. Chatty, mystical, intimate, flirtatious, and revelatory, Clarice Lispector's pieces for the Saturday edition of Rio's leading paper, the Jornal do Brasil, from 1967 to 1973, take the forms of memories, essays, aphorisms, and serialized stories. Endlessly delightful, her insights make one sit up and think, whether about children or social ills or pets or society women or the business of writing or love. This new, large, and beautifully translated volume, Too Much of Life: The Complete Cronicas presents a new aspect of the great writer-at once off the cuff and spot on.

One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Toibin 'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love-liest way to see herself' Lucrecia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrecia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed its author, The Besieged City is unlike any other work in Lispector's canon: a story of transformation, of what it means to see and to be seen.

Egy fiatal lány a dzsungelből Rio de Janeiróba kerül gépírókisasszonynak: vajon az ő ártatlansága lesz erősebb vagy a nagyváros nyüzsgése? Ezt a történetet meséli el Clarice Lispector, vagyis az a férfi, akinek a bőrébe Lispector bújik. Ellenállhatatlan rafinériával, lenyűgöző váltásokkal bontakozik ki egy banális történet. Egy regény, amiben minden mondat másfelé kanyarodik, mint ahogy várnánk. A csillag órája minden szabályt áthág, minden várakozást kicselez. A 20. századi világirodalom titokzatos csúcsteljesítménye végre magyarul is olvasható. Clarice Lispector brazil író. 1920-ban született Ukrajnában. A pogromok miatt a zsidó család 1922-ben Brazíliába, Recife városába, később Rio de Janeiróba költözött: Lispector itt jogot tanult. Diplomatafeleségként a világ számos helyén élt, válását követően, 1959-től visszatért Rióba. Itt halt meg 1977-ben. Novelláit és regényeit világszerte újra és újra felfedezik. Bense Mónika 1972-ben született Budapesten. Többek között José Luís Peixoto, Rui Cardoso Martins, Afonso Cruz műveinek fordítója.

'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house' Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative childhood, as the 'little egg' who writes poems for her father, through her marriage to the faithless Otávio and on to her decision to make her own way in the world. As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states, different inner lives and different truths, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are. Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. References to her literary work pervade the music and literature of Brazil and Latin America. 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 sailed to Brazil. In 1933, Clarice Lispector encountered Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, which convinced her that she was meant to write. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart in 1943 when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize for the best first novel. Many felt she had given Brazillian literature a unique voice in the larger context of Portuguese literature. After living variously in Italy, the UK, Switzerland and the US, in 1959, Lispector with her children returned to Brazil where she wrote her most influential novels including The Passion According to G.H. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.