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Woman Who Killed the Fish by Clarice Lispector (2022, Hardcover)

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Woman Who Killed the Fish, Hardcover by Lispector, Clarice; Moser, Benjamin (TRN), ISBN 0811229602, ISBN-13 9780811229609, Brand New, Free shipping in the US While explaining to her sons why their fish is dead, the author relates stories of memorable animals in her life.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation

ISBN-100811229602

ISBN-139780811229609

eBay Product ID (ePID)18038730319

Product Key Features

Book TitleWoman Who Killed the Fish

Number of Pages80 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, General, Literary

Publication Year2022

IllustratorYes

GenreJuvenile Fiction, Fiction

AuthorClarice Lispector

Book SeriesStorybook Nd Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN2020-012675

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsThe Brazilian writer's work has had a recent public resurgence; we have been wowed as we discover or rediscover her writing by her seemingly pragmatic approach to the page, and by her characters, who appear confident in themselves and their thoughts even though, perhaps, they really aren't., "Bought pets, animals must either conform to our anthropomorphic lens or, as "uninvited natural creatures," remain too repellent to merit our sympathy. The title story's sly narrator implicates both herself and the reader, by justifying the fatal neglect of her son's fish on her all-consuming work as a fiction writer.", A writer of formidable modernist pedigree, it is something of a relief to find her working in a chatty, mischievous mode and concerned with that most storybook of subjects, the 'intimate life' of animals., "Readers will delight in this short collection of luminous, laugh-out-loud stories from the late Brazilian cult writer Lispector...Though the author wrote these stories for her son when he was a child, and they often contain magic and lack in explanations, their small delights nonetheless rank high among Lispector's impressive body of work. In between the lines of these spellbinding worlds, she offers indelible glimpses of the way people live and dream. Even amid the silliest of scenarios are glimmers of the beauty of the everyday: "That's how life went on. Gently, gently." This is one to savor. "

Series Volume Number0

Synopsis"The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit" is a detective story which explains that bunnies think with their noses: for a single idea a bunny might "scrunch up his nose fifteen thousand times" (he may not be too bright, but "he's not foolish at all when it comes to making babies"). The third tale, "Almost True," is a shaggy dog yarn narrated by a pooch who is very worried about a wicked witch: "I am a dog named Ulisses and my owner is Clarice." The wonderful last story, "Laura's Intimate Life" stars "the nicest hen I've ever seen." Laura is "quite dumb," but she has her "little thoughts and feelings. Not a lot, but she's definitely got them. Just knowing she's not completely dumb makes her feel all chatty and giddy. She thinks that she thinks." A visitor with one eye from Jupiter arrives and vows Laura will never be eaten: she's been worrying since "humans are a weird sort of person" who can love hens and eat them, too. Such throwaway wisdom abounds: "Don't even getting me started." These delightful, high-hearted stories, written for her own boys, have charm to burn--and are a treat for every Lispector reader., "That woman who killed the fish unfortunately is me," begins the title story, but "if it were my fault, I'd own up to you, since I don't lie to boys and girls. I only lie sometimes to a certain type of grownup because there's no other way." Enumerating all the animals she's loved--cats, dogs, lizards, chickens, monkeys--Clarice finally asks: "Do you forgive me?" "The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit" is a detective story which explains that bunnies think with their noses: for a single idea a bunny might "scrunch up his nose fifteen thousand times" (he may not be too bright, but "he's not foolish at all when it comes to making babies"). The third tale, "Almost True," is a shaggy dog yarn narrated by a pooch who is very worried about a wicked witch: "I am a dog named Ulisses and my owner is Clarice." The wonderful last story, "Laura's Intimate Life" stars "the nicest hen I've ever seen." Laura is "quite dumb," but she has her "little thoughts and feelings. Not a lot, but she's definitely got them. Just knowing she's not completely dumb makes her feel all chatty and giddy. She thinks that she thinks." A one-eyed visitor from Jupiter arrives and vows Laura will never be eaten: she's been worrying, because "humans are a weird sort of person" who can love hens and eat them, too. Such throwaway wisdom abounds: "Don't even get me started." These delightful, high-hearted stories, written for her own boys, have charm to burn--and are a treat for every Lispector reader.

LC Classification NumberPZ7.1.L5695Wo 2020