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“The best one,” as Clarice Lispector called The Apple in the Dark, her famously intense 1961 novel

Trade Review
"The Apple in the Dark is a retelling, a reversal, a recasting of the creation myth: a very unlikely bestseller, it’s very, very different from anything else she ever wrote. If you put it between The Besieged City, which comes before it, and The Passion According to G. H., which comes after, you’ll see just how radically experimental she was: how little she repeated herself, how she ‘made it new’ every single time." -- Benjamin Moser
"A fitting capstone to a remarkable publishing endeavor." -- Sophia Stewart - The Millions
"An experimental novel about becoming, existing, and being remade: seductive." -- Kirkus Reviews
"May we all, after reading The Apple in the Dark, ‘stand in the calm profundity of the mystery." -- Carlos Valladares - Frieze
"This existential epic of a desperate criminal…stands among Lispector’s finest and most enigmatic achievements." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)
""What in other hands might make for the premise behind a noir novel, Clarice Lispector uses to explore metaphysical questions of being, of existence expressed in a coiling language in which concrete nouns torque into abstract conceptions pushing sense to the limits of coherence…The Apple in the Dark represents Lispector at the height of her creative powers.”" -- Tom Bowden - The Book Beat

The Apple in the Dark

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    A Paperback / softback by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser

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      Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Published 17 November 2023
      ISBN-13 9780811226752
      978-0811226752
      ISBN-10 0811226751
      Also in:
      Myths & Legends

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      “The best one,” as Clarice Lispector called The Apple in the Dark, her famously intense 1961 novel

      Trade Review
      "The Apple in the Dark is a retelling, a reversal, a recasting of the creation myth: a very unlikely bestseller, it’s very, very different from anything else she ever wrote. If you put it between The Besieged City, which comes before it, and The Passion According to G. H., which comes after, you’ll see just how radically experimental she was: how little she repeated herself, how she ‘made it new’ every single time." -- Benjamin Moser
      "A fitting capstone to a remarkable publishing endeavor." -- Sophia Stewart - The Millions
      "An experimental novel about becoming, existing, and being remade: seductive." -- Kirkus Reviews
      "May we all, after reading The Apple in the Dark, ‘stand in the calm profundity of the mystery." -- Carlos Valladares - Frieze
      "This existential epic of a desperate criminal…stands among Lispector’s finest and most enigmatic achievements." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)
      ""What in other hands might make for the premise behind a noir novel, Clarice Lispector uses to explore metaphysical questions of being, of existence expressed in a coiling language in which concrete nouns torque into abstract conceptions pushing sense to the limits of coherence…The Apple in the Dark represents Lispector at the height of her creative powers.”" -- Tom Bowden - The Book Beat

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