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''One of the very great writers of the last century'' Guardian

''Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before'' Colm Tóibín

''He''d wait for her, she knew that now. Until she learned''

Lóri yearns for love yet is scared of herself, and of connecting with another human. When she meets Ulisses, a Professor of Philosophy, she is forced to confront her fears. As both of them will learn, to be worthy of another person, they must first be fully themselves. The book of which Clarice Lispector said, ''I humanized myself'', An Apprenticeship is about the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, and what it means to love and be loved.

Translated by Stefan Tobler
Edited by Benjamin Moser with an Afterword by Sheila Heti



Trade Review
Her brilliant and bewildering style is helping me to imagine how to write again -- Jenny Offill * The Times *
One of the very great writers of the last century * Guardian *
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures teaches us how to love. And how love lies in spaces. In waiting -- Carlos Valladares * Gagosian Quarterly *
Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before -- Colm Tóibín

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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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 April 2021
      ISBN-13 9780241371367
      978-0241371367
      ISBN-10 0241371368
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      Romance

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''One of the very great writers of the last century'' Guardian

      ''Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before'' Colm Tóibín

      ''He''d wait for her, she knew that now. Until she learned''

      Lóri yearns for love yet is scared of herself, and of connecting with another human. When she meets Ulisses, a Professor of Philosophy, she is forced to confront her fears. As both of them will learn, to be worthy of another person, they must first be fully themselves. The book of which Clarice Lispector said, ''I humanized myself'', An Apprenticeship is about the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, and what it means to love and be loved.

      Translated by Stefan Tobler
      Edited by Benjamin Moser with an Afterword by Sheila Heti



      Trade Review
      Her brilliant and bewildering style is helping me to imagine how to write again -- Jenny Offill * The Times *
      One of the very great writers of the last century * Guardian *
      An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures teaches us how to love. And how love lies in spaces. In waiting -- Carlos Valladares * Gagosian Quarterly *
      Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before -- Colm Tóibín

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