The Apple in the Dark
Clarice Lispector
The Apple in the Dark
Clarice Lispector
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Description
“The best one,” as Clarice Lispector called The Apple in the Dark, her famously intense 1961 novel
"The Apple in the Dark is a retelling, a reversal, a recasting of the creation myth: a very unlikely bestseller, it’s very, very different from anything else she ever wrote. If you put it between The Besieged City, which comes before it, and The Passion According to G. H., which comes after, you’ll see just how radically experimental she was: how little she repeated herself, how she ‘made it new’ every single time."
"A fitting capstone to a remarkable publishing endeavor."
"An experimental novel about becoming, existing, and being remade: seductive."
"May we all, after reading The Apple in the Dark, ‘stand in the calm profundity of the mystery."
"This existential epic of a desperate criminal…stands among Lispector’s finest and most enigmatic achievements."
""What in other hands might make for the premise behind a noir novel, Clarice Lispector uses to explore metaphysical questions of being, of existence expressed in a coiling language in which concrete nouns torque into abstract conceptions pushing sense to the limits of coherence…The Apple in the Dark represents Lispector at the height of her creative powers.”"
"Puzzling and dazzling."
"A mind-bending, metaphysical novel of the psyche...abstract, yes, and languid in pacing, yet pointedly attentive to detail."
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and “one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk). General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector’s complete works at New Directions, BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector, and Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, will be published in October.
"The Apple in the Dark is a retelling, a reversal, a recasting of the creation myth: a very unlikely bestseller, it’s very, very different from anything else she ever wrote. If you put it between The Besieged City, which comes before it, and The Passion According to G. H., which comes after, you’ll see just how radically experimental she was: how little she repeated herself, how she ‘made it new’ every single time."
"A fitting capstone to a remarkable publishing endeavor."
"An experimental novel about becoming, existing, and being remade: seductive."
"May we all, after reading The Apple in the Dark, ‘stand in the calm profundity of the mystery."
"This existential epic of a desperate criminal…stands among Lispector’s finest and most enigmatic achievements."
""What in other hands might make for the premise behind a noir novel, Clarice Lispector uses to explore metaphysical questions of being, of existence expressed in a coiling language in which concrete nouns torque into abstract conceptions pushing sense to the limits of coherence…The Apple in the Dark represents Lispector at the height of her creative powers.”"
"Puzzling and dazzling."
"A mind-bending, metaphysical novel of the psyche...abstract, yes, and languid in pacing, yet pointedly attentive to detail."
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and “one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk). General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector’s complete works at New Directions, BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector, and Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, will be published in October.