The besieged city / Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz ; introduction by Benjamin Moser ; edited by Benjamin Moser.
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TextLanguage: English, Portuguese Publication details: New York : New Directions Book, 2019Description: xxi, 213 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780811226714Uniform titles: Cidade sitiada. English Subject(s): Women -- Fiction | Brazil -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction.Additional physical formats: Online version:: Besieged cityDDC classification: 869.3/42 LOC classification: PQ9697.L585 | C513 2019Summary: "Lucr�ecia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with S�ao Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucr�ecia is tamed by marriage, S�ao Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives for the highest attainment it can conceive--a viaduct--it takes on the progressively more metropolitan manners that Lucr�ecia, with her vulgar ambitions, desires too. Yet it is precisely through this woman's superficiality--her identification with the porcelain knickknacks in her mother's parlor--that Clarice Lispector creates a profound and enigmatic meditation on 'the mystery of the thing'"--OCLC.
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Translation of: A cidade sitiada.
Publishers Weekly, February 2019
Kirkus Starred, February 2019
"Lucr�ecia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with S�ao Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucr�ecia is tamed by marriage, S�ao Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives for the highest attainment it can conceive--a viaduct--it takes on the progressively more metropolitan manners that Lucr�ecia, with her vulgar ambitions, desires too. Yet it is precisely through this woman's superficiality--her identification with the porcelain knickknacks in her mother's parlor--that Clarice Lispector creates a profound and enigmatic meditation on 'the mystery of the thing'"--OCLC.
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