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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
