
The Apple in the Dark
by Clarice Lispector
Title:
The Apple in the Dark
Author:
Clarice Lispector
Series (if any):
Penguin Modern Classics
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
400 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9780241371350
EAN:
9780241371350
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
414
Dimensions (mm):
128 x 198 x 25
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it fall'Martim, believing that he has committed a murder, flees the city and escapes into the night. Wandering through the vastness of nature he arrives, in a state of fear and wonder, at a remote ranch run by two women. There Martim finds work and, as he labours in the blistering heat of the Brazilian summer, becomes transfigured; remade into something else entirely.Translated by Benjamin Moser 'The most important Brazilian woman writer of the twentieth century... The richness of The Apple in the Dark defies the explanatory power of any single interpretation' TLS






























