Clarice Lispector - An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures BOOK REVIEW

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[bsnoguera]

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.

[Grouchator]

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.

[liquidpebbles]

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

[zhennessey]

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.

[mirsad]

Clarice's writing is what I imagined literature is like before I picked up my first book.

[luizappicanco]

I’m a simple woman. I see Clarice, I click. Nice video.

[gustavosousa]

mano eu fico tão feliz sabendo que o Cliff gosta tanto de Clarice e Machado

[brunaoliveira]

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.

[timkjazz]

Absolutely love her work, a titan of literature.

[jamesgwarrior]

Really enjoyed “The Hour of the Star.”

[maristiller]

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!

[juliannyreads]

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!

[alexiphigenia]

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!

[amaro]

love seeing this woman still being recognize over the world

[nellsea]

She's my absolute favorite author

[FlintSL]

Read The Hour of The Star about a month ago. One of the best I have ever read, quite simply.

[ricardodeoliveira]

Great, another Lispector review <3. You should definitely try her short stories. She is as acclaimed in Brazil for her short stories collections as she is for her stream of consciouness novels, which you love. Her short stories are also written in a mysterious and transcendental stream of consciouness prose.

If it's published in English, start with Laços de Família (Family Ties). I love it as much as I love The Passion According to Gh. It's considered to be her best short stories collection.

[beatrizoliveira]

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).

[semiote]

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...

[SergioRamos-lzql]

Thank you so much for spreading our literature. I would love to interview you sometime. Thank for all videos about my beloved Lispector.