Clarice Lispector (1925-1977), the author of such works as Near to the Wild Heart, The Hour of the Star, and The Passion According to G. H., is the internationally acclaimed novelist and short-story writer from Brazil and the subject of Benjamin Moser’s magisterial biography Why This World.
Series editor Benjamin Moser, who contributes afterwords for all four of these new translations, is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, due out in paperback from Oxford University Press in May 2012. He also just completed a new translation of Lispector’s The Hour of the Star.
The Irish author Colm Tóibín’s most recent novel, the bestselling Brooklyn, won the 2010 Costa Fiction Award.
发表于2025-03-15
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I’d met someone just like Macabéa in real life - incompetent, aimless, hollow and rootless. The encounterance is always awful and I’m always on the verge of losing patience and feeling guilty afterwards. Nevertheless, these ‘guilt’ apparently weights l...
评分生存本身就是一件痛苦荒谬,充满苦难,虚无且没价值的事。我们被喧嚣野蛮的匆忙撕成碎片。认清生命不值得追求后选择服从现实,保持理性克制,崇尚科学和逻辑,过一种崇高正义,冷静文明,高尚体面,庄严明智的生活。当我们把知识当作美德,认为保持清醒就会幸福,可真相却是,...
评分 评分#跳蛙看点书# [星辰时刻] 看之前就预料到自己看不懂,看完果然不太懂,这篇克拉丽斯生命最后的小说似乎没有开头,没有高潮,只有讲述者叙说这惨淡的现实,这是一种自述?对自己生平的投影?第一次如此着迷于一篇意识流短文,女孩玛卡贝娅不为自己而活却也不知为何而活,单薄...
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The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector’s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life’s unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free. She doesn’t seem to know how unhappy she should be. As Macabéa heads toward her absurd death, Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator—edge of despair to edge of despair—and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader’s preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love, and the art of fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.
“But sooner or later they fall in the form of rain.” 很奇怪,开头十几页看中文,有一种炸裂的美,英文读来却是平平。果然是中文某些词汇给予的联想和画面太过于根深蒂固。两种译文偶有小出入,不知孰是孰非。
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评分A life that reduced itself to its primitive state. Who can tell if she wasn't needing to die?
评分punch in the stomach时疼痛和意识分离的那一刻,哭泣: depriving the facelessness of beings 不是去看what’s behind, 而紧攥着那揉作一团的事物问 what being? what face? what less?
评分以诡异的文笔书写平常背后荒诞的人生
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