Reading with Clarice Lispector by Hélène Cixous


Reading with Clarice Lispector
Title : Reading with Clarice Lispector
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ISBN : 0816618291
ISBN-10 : 9780816618293
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 192
Publication : First published January 1, 1989

« Ceci est méditation sur la dernière heure. L’heure merveilleuse et impensable, l’heure vers laquelle nous allons comme vers la vérité. Ma vérité, notre vérité, cette étrangère, cette étrangeté dont le visage nous est promis à voir, à la fin. Et entretemps, toujours cette urgence : faire résonner dans notre siècle l’écho de cette Voix venue des origines. Clarice Lispector, on a peine mais aussi joie, à croire qu’elle ait pu exister, tout près de nous, hier, si loin en avant de nous. Après la compréhension, pas à pas, elle s’avance en tremblant dans l’incompréhensible épaisseur frémissante du monde, l’oreille finissime, tendue pour recueillir jusqu’au bruit des étoiles, jusqu’au minime frôlement des atomes, jusqu’au silence entre deux battements de cœur. » H. C

Reading with Clarice Lispector Reviews

  • mel m

    my fave bitch on my other fave bitch... ngl this is an excellent critical companion to lispector but while reading it I also had to frequently double up with a critical companion on cixous lol. these ladies are complicated!

  • Castles

    A very interesting, and highly academic read into Clarice Lispector's work.

    I’m not sure I totally identify with the text because reading Lispector was a different experience for me than she describes, but at other times she also has brilliant insights and references.

    I’m overall happy to see a research on the wonderful work of Clarice lispector, and i hope there will be more and more works like that on this absolutely genius author.

  • Matthew

    Helene really gets it, écoute:

    When somebody brought me Agua viva, it gave me such joy that I did not read it. It took me at least a year to do so. And all of a sudden, the book was divided into
    a thousand books. Each sentence seemed to me to be another book. That is how I consoled myself with the fact that it was enclosed in a single volume. When I
    was little, I had experienced pleasure when the third volume of The Three Mus-
    keteers was missing from the Municipal Library. When we are little, we imagine
    that once a book has been read, it has been read. Later on, we realize that we are
    never done reading a book. We can read in all tranquillity, read again intermina-
    bly even the smallest of volumes, like Agua viva. The text opens up. It is a book

    full of books. That is what a book and reading are all about. Commercially, a
    book full of books disgruntles readers and editors, who ask for a book consisting
    of one and only one book. And if it is a book consisting of one page or one word.
    that is even better for them!
    1982-83

  • Elizabeth

    Will try to review sometime at the end of July.

    SO GOOD!!!!