Água Viva / Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Stefan Tobler ; edited and with an introduction by Benjamin Moser.

London : Penguin Books, 2014.

xiv, 88 pages ; 20 cm.

This translation originally published: New York: New Directions, 2012.

In this book Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and writers, including one Brazilian musician who read it one hundred and eleven times. Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.

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