Girl Clarice is a enchantress. She can describe and explain feelings that are impossible to express. A true genius.

I read The Passion According to G. H. as my first read by her and was absolutely awestruck and mind blown. She truly was a genius.

I read almost everything from her in my early twenties and loved every bit. As you said, she's an author to be read slowly. The Chandelier, her second novel, is even denser. I was going too fast the first time I began reading it, so I had to slow down. It took me one month, but it paid the effort. If you ask me what is it about, I don't even know-it's about existence, things, the air... She is an experience.

Challenge accepted 🙌 I've never heard about this author but you have me hyped up to read this one. I love how you keep introducing me to so many authors that I would never venture to read on my own🤗💕 Great Review love.

I absolutely loved this book, "the freedom she sometimes felt. It didn't come from clear reflections, but a state that seemed to be made of perceptions too organic to be formulated as thoughts." pg.35 Literally every page had a gem of a sentence that I couldn't help to underline, sometimes the whole page. I feel that the egg imagery and the submerging underwater is Joana expressing that she maybe wants to be born again, to be made fresh and new, this life that she is currently leading isn't good enough, she wants out. She desires to be seen amongst individuals who can't see past flesh. Her imagination is so developed that to express even an ounce of the unseen to someone, would make her feel, for lack of a better word, stupid. Great review Alana.

I actually read her last novel, “A Breath of Life” first. I just could not believe what I was reading, I opened the book every night and just had to soak it all in. There’s no one else like her.

Oh gosh, I need to read more Lispector ! I read The Hour of the Star last year, and it’s everything you said about Wild Heart. Pure brilliance, I could have sat with each of her sentences for an hour letting them resonate.

Yeah Lispector is on another level. I’ve been rationing all her works, because they always require a lot of energy to consume, despite their length

Alana, first of all: I just loved your review and probably i'm gonna spend some time watching your reviews later. As a brazilian person, I've heard a lot about Clarice Lispector when I was in Highschool, even though I started reading her last year and I just feel exactly the same thought you shared: She is a GENIUS. Last week I read "Agua Viva"(which I guess is her shorter book) and I am here to indicate you this reading. Actually, to challenge you, because this book is a challenge. This dense stream of conciousness is a MASTERPIECE. It's bigger than words could describe. Even being a hard book, I really do believe that you're going to love the experience as I did. Thanks for the amazing video! Hope see you talking more about her

Have you read The Hour of the Star? I picked it up a couple weeks ago and it’s still eating away at me. I’d never read anything like it…there’s such a haunting quality to her words. Can’t wait to dig into this one!

I just got Hour of the Star by CL I'm hesitant to read it because I know I will love it, if only we new when we will die, the final glass of wine the final book

Sold, thank you! also that cover is so good!

I have heard so many interesting takes on this author. Excellent analysis!

Alrighty then! Sold! Thanks for introducing me to this new to me author.

I really need to finally read some Lispector!

ahhh so glad you got to this! reading Lispector is a religion, mean to be revisited over and over again. if you enjoyed this, i say RUN to The Passion According to G.H., which is getting a film adaptation this year! this book changed me 💫

you're going to make me abandon my whole TBR and just read the books you review 😩--you're great at selling a good book

Really late, but I wanted to comment that I tried reading Lispector like 15 years ago and it felt like hitting my head against a wall (cursed eggs, what does it mean!?). Your commentary gives me hope that I may try reading her again and finally enjoy and understand her better.

Nice review! Have you read Agua Viva? Another brilliant book.

Added to my list!!

Can you please review Is Mother Dead? It was part of the International Booker 2023. It's a translation from Norwegian. (I made a mistake Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, won).

Does she write in French? I'll be done with Histoires de la nuit pretty soon, and after that it'll be Se perdre, so starting sometime in June I'll need another good French novel. I'm really improving as a reader of French, and obviously I'm proud of that fact. Thx for the review - enjoyed.

Imagino uma estadunidense tentando entender a Clarice Lispector. "O óbvio é a verdade mais difícil de se enxergar." Clarice Lispector