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PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation

ISBN-100811232212

ISBN-139780811232210

eBay Product ID (ePID)3058372924

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Book TitleApprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicHispanic & Latino, Jewish

GenreFiction

AuthorClarice Lispector

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight5.8 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingAn

ReviewsHer writing is hypnotic and evocative, drawing out deep emotional truths, while playing with form. An Apprenticeship is an attempt to understand human connection and its limits, following a woman on her earnest journey out of solitude and in search of love., Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before. One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century, in the same league as Flann O'Brien, Borges, and Pessoa--utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing., In An Apprenticeship, Lóri performs a sort of gonzo-philosophy, putting her body in service of an internal monologue in which she struggles to understand herself, her writing, and sexual desire as a whole., A passionate, tender work, An Apprenticeship is also perhaps Lispector's most accessible. She herself admitted as much; in it, she remarked 'I humanized myself.', The revival of the hypnotic Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the 21st century., Every translation of her writing is belated and urgent. We're playing catch-up. Don't hesitate... Lispector's writing is like glass: granular detail turned to liquid under impossible heat, and then hardened and crystallized into a wet, new thing. Its fragility requires a certain patience to handle; it always feels on the edge of shattering. It turns the sky into a kind of object. It welcomes the light.

Afterword byHeti, Sheila

Dewey Decimal869.342

SynopsisLóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only "to love and to be loved," but also "to be worthy of life itself." Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector's attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller. Some appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers and critics, the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: "I humanized myself," she said. "The book reflects that."