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Too much of life : the complete crônicas
- Title
- Too much of life : the complete crônicas / Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson ; afterword by Paulo Gurgel Valente.
- Author
- Lispector, Clarice
- Publication
- New York, NY : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-2793 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 742 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "The crônica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers (or even soccer stars) to address a wide readership on any theme they like. Chatty, mystical, intimate, flirtatious, and revelatory, Clarice Lispector's pieces for the Saturday edition of Rio's leading paper, the Jornal do Brasil, from 1967 to 1973, take the forms of memories, essays, aphorisms, and serialized stories. Endlessly delightful, her insights make one sit up and think, whether about children or social ills or pets or society women or the business of writing or love. This new, large, and beautifully translated volume, Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas presents a new aspect of the great writer-at once off the cuff and spot on"--
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbooks ; NDP1538
- Uniform Title
- Prose works. English
- New Directions paperbook ; 1538.
- Alternative Title
- Prose works.
- Subject
- Lispector, Clarice
- Genre/Form
- Literature.
- Translations.
- Note
- "A New Directions Paperbook Original"
- Call Number
- JFD 22-2793
- ISBN
- 9780811226790
- 0811226794
- LCCN
- 2022018883
- OCLC
- 1304248285
- Author
- Lispector, Clarice, author.
- Title
- Too much of life : the complete crônicas / Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson ; afterword by Paulo Gurgel Valente.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New Directions paperbooks ; NDP1538New Directions paperbook ; 1538.
- Added Author
- Costa, Margaret Jull, translator.Patterson, Robin, translator.Valente, Paulo Gurgel, writer of afterword.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-2793