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In Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to ''capture the present''. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and writers, including one Brazilian musician who read it one hundred and eleven times. Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.

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A bewitching, jewel-like book unlike anything in modern literature. Agua Viva baffles and inspires me ... Each word of the book lands with the sweet force of a blade ... crystalline -- Carlos Valladares * Gagosian Quarterly *
An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce * Edmund White *
Lispector stands at the pinnacle of Brazil's impressive literary achievement * Washington Post Book World *
One of the very great writers of the last century * Guardian *

Agua Viva

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    A Paperback / softback by Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 6 February 2014
      ISBN-13 9780141197364
      978-0141197364
      ISBN-10 0141197366
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to ''capture the present''. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and writers, including one Brazilian musician who read it one hundred and eleven times. Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.

      Trade Review
      A bewitching, jewel-like book unlike anything in modern literature. Agua Viva baffles and inspires me ... Each word of the book lands with the sweet force of a blade ... crystalline -- Carlos Valladares * Gagosian Quarterly *
      An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce * Edmund White *
      Lispector stands at the pinnacle of Brazil's impressive literary achievement * Washington Post Book World *
      One of the very great writers of the last century * Guardian *

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