Clarice Lispector - An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures BOOK REVIEW
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One of Clarice's advantages is that even for those who worry about spoilers, she's unspoilable. She's so indescribable that the idea of a spoiler doesn't make sense.
There is no one who had such a firm grasp on what it's like to be a thing existing in the universe with consciousness. Clarice Lispector is probably my favorite writer of all time.
This comment should on the the cover of one her books. 🙌
@@emin5488 I agree
Everything is no one.
Clarice Lispector is a titan, not only her novels but her short stories as well are such a flex of both hard worked talent and genius
Clarice's writing is what I imagined literature is like before I picked up my first book.
I’m a simple woman. I see Clarice, I click. Nice video.
Thank you for bringing attention to Clarice. She deserves greater recognition for her creativity. She reinvented language and her consciousness at the same time. New Directions is a great publisher.
mano eu fico tão feliz sabendo que o Cliff gosta tanto de Clarice e Machado
Really enjoyed “The Hour of the Star.”
Absolutely love her work, a titan of literature.
That's my favorite book of hers. I learned so much from it, as the name insinuates. I remember sending you a message about it on IG, maybe last year. So good to see brazilian authors making the world, and your part in it is amazing.
Such a wonderful review! :D Clarice is really one of the best authors of all time!
I'm thankful for being Brazilian so I can read her work in Portuguese (her books are definitely not easy to read but surely very pleasantly)
And Clarice was also a translator, she translated "Interview with the Vampire" to Portuguese. Very talented woman!
Lispector is amazing! I’ve just been getting into her, reading The Hour of the Star last year and Near to the Wild Heart recently. She’s just so damn good!
❤
Thanks for the Boxwalla suggestion!
love seeing this woman still being recognize over the world
I think I love your reviews more than I love the books - so engaging, witty, deep, smart, authentic, so well-edited. Works of art in and of themselves. Thank you for doing you. The world would be a lot less interesting if you weren't!
Wait for the Brazilian Storm!!
Clarice is our goddess in literature!!
She's my absolute favorite author
Read The Hour of The Star about a month ago. One of the best I have ever read, quite simply.
Thank you so much for spreading our literature. I would love to interview you sometime. Thank for all videos about my beloved Lispector.
This was such a good review. I absolutely loved the book and your review sums it up so amazing. thank you.
After watching your GH video, I read it, and then spent the winter reading through almost everything Lispector wrote: the complete short stories, seven of her novels, and the Moser biography. An Apprenticeship and A Breath of Life, as well as the Selected Cronicas, are all I have left. An Apprenticeship was next on my docket, so this video came at just the right moment! Her writings are a world unto themselves. I'd love to see you do a video on...well, anything else by her, but Hour of the Star (which I just read) in particular. It's very short, but a unique love story itself, about the toll of poverty but also about the ways in which intellect can fill us with too much self-importance to make contact with the divine...
Great, another Lispector review
Clarice is unique, reading her it’s just like floating in thoughts. You need to get “A Breath of Life “ by her, it’s the most beautiful and painful experience a book can provide (a deep encounter with your inner self).
I have the beautiful New Directions Complete Stories sitting on my shelf and this is a great motivator to finally crack into it. thanks!
thank you for this safe space in youtube, in my life.
I've read several Lispector novels and stories and have enjoyed them, all. I'm going to start _The Apprenticeship,_ tonight. Thanks for all your Clarence Lispector reviews, Cliff.
And another book on my list to read 🙂 tnx for the review!
oh, this one is precious. 'im from brazil, this is my favourite one from Clarice. I was even taking a look on it the other day.
Thanks for this. There seems to be a steady stream of translations of her work through New Directions. I wasn't crazy about "The Chandelier," but I love her other novels and the short story collection is peerless.
Do you realise you have a great following among Brazilians? We all kind of love you, we believe you're better than food.
She’s magnificent.
Clarice 💚 🇧🇷 💙 🇺🇦 💛
great review ❤
Wonderful video!!!
Cheers from Brazil! Btw Clarice's collection of short stories is precious too (like: A descoberta do mundo). I recommend 🤩 Love your work 🇧🇷
Is that the friendly spine of The Brothers Karamazov I spy?! Oh I'd love to see that review one day, I immensely enjoyed that book.
One of the greatest bonus of being Brazilian is to read her in full delight
Probably the fastest that I have commented on your video! 😊😊 Gonna be a good day ahead 😎👍
Just finished reading this novel and my first book from her. Really love her writing, I agree how it’s feminine and I look forward to her other writing.
Thanks!
Do you have a podcast ? If no, then YOU SHOULD! I'd listen to anything you'd say or talk about. (You are the reason I discovered Clarice Lispector, by the way.)
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Nice review as always 🤌
“I humanized myself” is a very interesting and poetic way to put it.
One day you should review one of the deSade's books on your shelf above your left shoulder
Bela resenha sobre a nossa esfinge grandiosa. Clarice foi e é uma das maiores desse mundo, inigualável. Se você gostou de Uma aprendeizagem ou livros dos prazes, eu tenho certeza que vc também irá gostar de A hora da estrela.É simplesmente fenomenal and its definetly better than food, it worths it :)))
Love Clarice, always get in some trance-induced state when reading her, even though not actually understanding everything. Or because of it, who knows. But I would check Grande Sertão: Veredas from Guimarães Rosa before stating she is the greatest Brazilian writer of the XXth century =]
Clif. The release date for McCarthys new book has been announced as well as the cover art for the box set . It's going to be the novel and a companion coda novel released together .
Quite the time indeed, Cliff
I have a used copy of her The Apple in the Dark. Going to start it soon. It's almost impossible to find.
"Un soplo de vida" is also amazing! My Clarice's fav book ever
*Um Sopro de Vida
@@BNK2442 Spanish is not Portuguese. LOL
@@EatWearTravel The rule of the internet is, you either write the original book name, or the name the book received in the translation of the language we are currently speaking. So no random spanish names. :-P
@@BNK2442 The rule of the internet is not mansplaining. 😴😴😴
@@EatWearTravel Did you actually used this word? Christ, you know that only losers actually think that this is a thing, right?
could you review The Besieged City by Lispector?
the yt recommended me to watch this....and i was a bit confused since you looked familiar then i checked you other content...apparently I had only watched ur content with the mustache.... now on the way to watch all of them.
Clarice Listpector is better than food yes but amplified into the infinite.
Please, u need meet Caio Fernando Abreu. Brazilian Literature is indescribable!
Respect the Nitsch book on the shelf there. Rest in peace!
Review james joyce's ulysses dude. We are looking forward
I can't believe you still haven't read The Hour of The Star!!! Do yoursef a favor a read that one :)
Since you reacted for the first Clarice, I am waiting for the “Hour of the star” moment, i was so young when i read this book at school and i think the “hour of the star” changed me/touched me in some kind of way… we know the Clarice’s write is a kind of witchcraft and can touch us in misterious way….
In “Hour of Star”, Clarice slyly subvert ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself, it is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world.
Can you review Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood?
I suspect the Russian’s do not share your opinion 😛. Another great review. Thank you 🙏.
God damn you! I have too many fucking books to buy because of you!
Oh, and you like Lispector, too? Here are some thoughts on The Hour of the Star: ruclips.net/video/3VN0hMXA4rc/видео.html
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Have you read anything by Sylvia Plath?? Would love to see a video of that.
I, unable to stand the cell of the God, I humanized it.
Because the naked thing is so tedious'.
It's all in there. Her why's.
I thought I was crazy. Maybe I am, but Clarice made me see there are other people like me (Salinger and Carson McCullers did this too).
Before that I just became more and more lonely with every person I met.
Long live the dead because they live in us. 🤯
ele gostou? não entendo nada...
Gostou. Ele é um grande fã dela.
Problably Guimarães Rosa is the greatest brazilian author from the last century, and with him there is Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Maybe Clarice is the 3rd place, with Graciliano Ramos and João Cabral de Melo neto.
complex AND simple ?? make your mind up before you hit the record button 😉
It's almost as if things can be multifaceted
I know I left a comment on your channel at some point about Jordan Peterson. I like your takes on literature, and I think Jordan Peterson is a toxic charlatan.
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