The Besieged City

by Clarice Lispector

Rich with visions, miraculous horses, and linguistic ecstasy, The Besieged City stars Lucr cia. Clarice Lispector's heroine is a materialistic girl free of the burden of thought: "Behold, behold, all of her, terribly physical, one of the objects."

"The object--the thing," Lispector once remarked, "always fascinated me and in a certain sense destroyed me. In my book The Besieged City I speak indirectly about the mystery of the thing. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811238504
• ISBN13: 9780811238502
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 240 Pages