Research Catalog

Title

The chandelier / Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser and Magdalena Edwards ; edited by Benjamin Moser.

Author

Lispector, Clarice

Publication

• New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moser, Benjamin
• Edwards, Magdalena

Description

313 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"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" --

Uniform Title

Lustre. English

Alternative Title

Lustre.

Subject

• Women > Fiction
• Social isolation > Fiction
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > Fiction

Genre/Form

Psychological fiction.

Note

• "A New Directions Book."
• "Originally published as O Lustre" -- Title page verso.

Language (note)

• Portuguese editions published in 1946, 1967, and 1982.

Call Number

JFD 18-2091

ISBN

• 9780811223133
• 0811223132

LCCN

2017051736

OCLC

992576017

Author

Lispector, Clarice, author.

Title

The chandelier / Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser and Magdalena Edwards ; edited by Benjamin Moser.

Publisher

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Portuguese editions published in 1946, 1967, and 1982.

Added Author

Moser, Benjamin, editor, translator.

Edwards, Magdalena, translator.

Translation Of:

Lispector, Clarice Lustre 3.ed. Rio de Janeiro : J. Alvaro, 1967 241 pages ; 18 cm (DLC) 68081314

Research Call Number

JFD 18-2091