#Bibliophile #SetInSoAmerica this Brazilian novel is still on my #TBRMountain
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#Bibliophile #SetInSoAmerica this Brazilian novel is still on my #TBRMountain
A woman, G.H., in a Rio de Janeiro apartment goes into her maid's room after she has quit. She finds only a strange drawing on the wall & a cockroach in a cabinet. What follows is a monologue that is in turns mesmerizing, baffling, luminous, unsettling & mystical. An unforgettable experience.
#ClassicSummer2024 Book 6
so-soMy 1st Lispector is unlike any novel I‘ve read. The whole book is the interior monologue of the main character, who seems to be on existential crisis as she muses on identity, death, religion,etc. Her complex philosophical ideas on life are perplexing to me; her thoughts are often contradictory & hard to follow, yet hypnotic. Not a book for everyone. For it being hypnotic & provocative merely from an encounter with a cockroach, it‘s not a ‘pan‘.
I‘ve been in quite the slump lately. Just finished one, and really enjoying this too! Hope this slump is over!
pickI can‘t believe Dom Casmurro was written in 1899. It‘s brilliant. I read the translation by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson.
People will think I am obsessed w/ cribs. I swear I'm not! I didn't know when I started this book that it was a kind of riff on nativity plays. It tells the story of Severino, a poor dispossessed peasant who follows the river to try his luck in Recife. All he finds along the way is death and poverty. And a carpenter called José who's just had a child. It is a Brazilian classic & deservedly so. A play in verse that's deep, moving, powerful.
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