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Lädt ... The Chandelier (1946)von Clarice Lispector
   Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  _takechiya | Nov 29, 2023 |   > BAnQ (Guay H., Le devoir, 1 sept. 1990) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2760169 > Éditions des femmes : https://www.desfemmes.fr/litterature/le-lustre/ > Bibliographie : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/035774ar Joop-le-philosophe | Aug 2, 2021 | By Clarice Lispector 1946 New Directions Book This was not an easy read. It takes a certain focus to get through....it takes the reader not just into the lives of the characters, but into their psyche and thinking processes, and their daily mental escape, exhausted from living. Do many amazing and profound paragraphs. I'm sure many will give up on this because of the focus it takes, but for those that do read and finish it, this book will knock you over and leave you breathless. The ending will blow your mind. This is the first time the book has been translated to English and published in th USA. (  ) over.the.edge | Aug 21, 2018 | Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier in 1946 with her second novel, The Chandelier. In a body of work renowned for its potent idiosyncratic genius, The Chandelier in many ways has pride of place. "It stands out," her biographer Benjamin Moser noted, "in a strange and difficult body of work, as perhaps her strangest and most difficult book." Of glacial intensity, consisting almost entirely of interior monologues--interrupted by odd and jarring fragments of dialogue and action--the novel moves in slow waves that crest in moments of revelation. As she seeks freedom via creation, the drama of Virginia's isolated life is almost entirely internal: from childhood, she sculpts clay figurines with "the best clay one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold. She got a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world. How, how to explain the miracle..." While on one level simply the story of a woman's life, The Chandelier's real drama lies in Lispector's attempt "to find the nucleus made of a single instant ...the tenuous triumph and the defeat, perhaps nothing more than breathing." The Chandelier pushes Lispector's lifelong quest for that nucleus into deeper territories than any of her amazing works" -- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This is typical Lispector, with an awkward protagonist and a fugue in a vertiginous crescendo as an ending, and what sets The Chandelier apart is the pacing: a continuous narrative with almost no clear distinctions between episodes and an unclear timeline. In particular, such a pacing feels like how days go on and on in depression.
It's also the same sickly introversion that leads to an overthinking of the self, a theme very dear to the author. This book is also transitional because it has the first appearances of most of Lispector's main themes. The questioning of the self (in the age-old dilemma: what does it mean to be oneself?), the nature of femininity and sensuality and the nature of the sensation itself. After all, the innermost sensations are what's behind every Lispector book, presented like a newborn morality in The Chandelier. (