The besieged city
Title:
The besieged city
Author:
Lispector, Clarice, author.
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Uniform Title:
Cidade sitiada. English
Publication Information:
New York : New Directions, 2019.
Physical Description:
213 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
"Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with Sao Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucrécia is tamed by marriage, Sao Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives for the highest attainment it can conceive--a viaduct--it takes on the progressively more metropolitan manners that Lucrécia, with her vulgar ambitions, desires too. Yet it is precisely through this woman's superficiality==her identification with the porcelain knickknacks in her mother's parlor--that Clarice Lispector creates a profound and enigmatic meditation on 'the mystery of the thing.'"--provided by publisher.
General Note:
Originally published as A Cidade Sitiada in 1949.
Language:
English
Contents:
The hill in the pasture -- The citizen -- The hunt -- The public statue -- In the garden -- Sketch of the city -- The alliance with the outsider -- The betrayal -- The exposed treasure -- The corn in the field -- The first deserters -- End of the construction: the viaduct.
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ISBN:
9780811226714
Format :
Book
