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Family Ties Paperback - 1972

by Clarice Lispector


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The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year.The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward her elderly mother. An adolescent girl's obsessive fear of being looked at. The "giddying sense of compassion" that a blind man introduces into a young housewife's settled existence. Of such is made the world of Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer whose finest work is acknowledged to be her exquisitely crafted short stories. Here, in these thirteen of Lispector's most brilliantly conceived stories, mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition. Her characters mirror states of mind. Alienated by their unsettling sense of life's absurdity, they seem at times absorbed in their interior lives and in the passions that dominate and usually defeat them.

Giovanni Pontiero's translation has been lauded by Gregory Rabassa as "magnificent."

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The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year. The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward her elderly mother. An adolescent girl's obsessive fear of being looked at. The 'giddying sense of compassion' that a blind man introduces into a young housewife's settled existence. Of such is made the world of Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer whose finest works acknowledged to be her exquisitely crafted short stories. Here in these thirteen of Lospector's most brilliantly conceived stories, mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition.

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  • Title Family Ties
  • Author Clarice Lispector
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Texas Press, Austin, TX
  • Date 1972-01-01
  • ISBN 9780292724488 / 0292724489
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6 x 0.49 in (23.37 x 15.24 x 1.24 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Brazilian, Brazil - Social life and customs
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • New York Review of Books, 09/24/2009, Page 35

About the author

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) wrote nine novels and ten collections of short stories.

Giovanni Pontiero (1932-1996) was a translator of Portuguese-language fiction.

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