Água Viva by Clarice Lispector - Book Summary, Analysis, Review

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Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! What exactly happened? It’s not really a book you can spoil so it is non-spoiler in natire. It's not a novel. It has no characters per se. But it's wonderful. It's Brazilian. It's Clarice. She paints with words here and escapes definition. Let's talk about the enigmatic Agua Viva today by Clarice Lispector!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
0:00 Introductions
0:30 Feelings, Lots of Feelings
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@Sherlika_Gregori 2 жыл бұрын

‘é’ means ‘is’. I haven’t read Água Viva in Portuguese yet though. But I will when I go to Brazil and get a copy.

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. Yeah, I was wondering about that part and the "one" vs "two"

@BookishTexan 2 жыл бұрын

Well now I’m even more intrigued

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

One day you will allow me to buddy read select something for you and it will be Brazilian or Russian and you will like it :D

@contretemps6565 11 ай бұрын

Thanks to your channel, I had the chance to know and read CL. And I read Near to the Wild Heart, The Passion According to G.H., An Apprenticeship, The Hour of the Star and now Agua Viva. The Hour of the Star became my favorite, there's also a short movie version of it on KZfaq if you'd like to visualize the novel😊 (in Portuguese, with English subtitles if I'm not mistaken) For Agua Viva, I've to say yes, it's indeed different. I found it a bit difficult to follow, we understand there are subtle connections between the paragraphs, yet it was difficult to catch the abstract meanings behind them. Adorned with deeply philosophical phrases, for me this book was rather like a poetry with beautiful verses. On pg 65, there's this quote 'I write to you in disorder, I well know. But that is how I live. I only work with the lost and found'. I also think this book is for avid readers who will enjoy digging further to find the treasures in it.

@TheCodeXCantina 11 ай бұрын

So glad you’ve connected with her! Yes! I agree with these comments

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. You really do it justice but also give potential readers fair warning. At times reading it I felt like Lispector was dragging the words out of her own entrails and yet producing a thing of beauty.

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

There's that section about entrails and a map... :D

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheCodeXCantina yes!

@attention5638 2 жыл бұрын

As soon as you said the book is about nothing, I knew the Seinfeld jokes were coming haha. Heidegger also said something about the word "is" being the most important word in any language.

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

Am I as transparent as a jellyfish?

@bighardbooks770 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the Shout Out! mates 😜 It was a pleasure revisiting this novel w ya, Una!

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

Any time!

@tomlabooks3263 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the Seinfeld reference at the beginning so much 😅 and the quick GOT one as well! Great video, guys 👍🏻

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@Johanna_reads 2 жыл бұрын

This sounds so different and seems like it would require close reading and an open mind. Great discussion!

@EveryoneWhoReadsitMustConverse 2 жыл бұрын

It is a fantastic experience

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

You know, one could just feel your way through it. It's a really unique experience :D

@PentoPaper 2 жыл бұрын

This sounds like a fascinating read! Thank you for sharing 😊

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

It was! Any time!

@EveryoneWhoReadsitMustConverse 2 жыл бұрын

It is awesome

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

@@EveryoneWhoReadsitMustConverse It is "is"

@TheWorldAccordingToJ 2 жыл бұрын

"We talked about what the book doesn't have. Characters. Plot." I laughed at this. Not a very good selling point. Wouldn't make a good tag line. "Buy this book. It doesn't have characters. Oh, and, no plot also. Just, you know, kinda letting you know up front. All sales are final. Read the fine print."

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

That's a bold move, Cotton. Let's see how it plays out for him...

@jamesstout6280 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@Thiagolina 8 ай бұрын

the first publishings in English were called Stream of Life. Jellyfish would be the best title. A Jellyfish has the largest amount of its body made of water. So yeah, the idea of something that cannot be completly "trapped" in the matter, in a shape, fluidity would be the word

@amalianita2286 10 ай бұрын

Doesn't make sense but it works What else do you want ❤

@ailtonsilva3314 2 жыл бұрын

in portuguese "is" is "é".

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent and thanks for answering that quesiton! Do you know if that part of the book says the most important word is one character? That's a big translation difference as in English it says two characters and I was curious if it says one in Portuguese...

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheCodeXCantina I am commenting here just so I see Haiutõ answers.

@victorperrin7295 Жыл бұрын

In the original Portuguese it says “But the most important word in the language has only one letter: é. É.”.

@amalianita2286 10 ай бұрын

Leaves whole space for imagination