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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler (translation), Benjamin Moser (editor)Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated & nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection & embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love & to be loved,” but also “to be worthy of life itself.”
Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector’s attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, & the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers & became a bestseller.
Some appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers & critics, the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: “I humanized myself,” she said. “The book reflects that.”
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Clarice Lispector was born to a Jewish family in western Ukraine. As a result of the anti-Semitic violence they endured, the family fled to Brazil in 1922, & Clarice grew up in Recife. Following the death of her mother when Clarice was 9, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her father & 2 sisters, & she went on to study law. With her husband, who worked for the foreign service, she lived in Italy, Switzerland, England, & the US, until they separated & she returned to Rio in 1959; she died there in 1977. Since her death, Clarice Lispector has earned universal recognition as Brazil’s greatest modern writer.
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the 20th century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), & “one of the 20th century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk).
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