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'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Tóibín

'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love­liest way to see herself'

Lucrécia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrécia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed its author, The Besieged City is unlike any other work in Lispector's canon: a story of transformation, of what it means to see and to be seen.

The Besieged City

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Paperback / softback by Clarice Lispector , Johnny Lorenz

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'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Tóibín'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love­liest... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/08/2019
    ISBN13: 9780241371374, 978-0241371374
    ISBN10: 0241371376

    Number of Pages: 224

    Fiction , Classics

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    'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Tóibín

    'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love­liest way to see herself'

    Lucrécia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrécia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed its author, The Besieged City is unlike any other work in Lispector's canon: a story of transformation, of what it means to see and to be seen.

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