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My 1st Lispector is unlike any novel I‘ve read. The whole book is the interior monologue of the main character, who seems to be on existential crisis as she muses on identity, death, religion,etc. Her complex philosophical ideas on life are perplexing to me; her thoughts are often contradictory & hard to follow, yet hypnotic. Not a book for everyone. For it being hypnotic & provocative merely from an encounter with a cockroach, it‘s not a ‘pan‘.

I‘ve been in quite the slump lately. Just finished one, and really enjoying this too! Hope this slump is over!

I can‘t believe Dom Casmurro was written in 1899. It‘s brilliant. I read the translation by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson.

People will think I am obsessed w/ cribs. I swear I'm not! I didn't know when I started this book that it was a kind of riff on nativity plays. It tells the story of Severino, a poor dispossessed peasant who follows the river to try his luck in Recife. All he finds along the way is death and poverty. And a carpenter called José who's just had a child. It is a Brazilian classic & deservedly so. A play in verse that's deep, moving, powerful.
#Brazil

“But the skeleton is free of life and when I'm alive I shudder all over. I won't get the final nudity. And I still don't want it, it seems.

This is the life seen by life.”

I was absorbed this evening drinking in the words of Clarice Lispector. Loving this slim volume although it seems to be less than popular on Litsy.

All I can think of is “Girl, Run“ 💀

Asimov's Robot Series. #Brazilian #boxset

… senza sospettare che il mio ragionamento, a quel punto, lavorava a tutti spiano, sospettando ancora meno che la ragione non è mai fredda e spassionata, pensa il contrario solo chi con la riflessione non raggiunge il centro propulsore, per vederlo bisogna essere davvero penetranti