The Chandelier [Paperback]

In paperback, Clarice Lispectors explosiveand surprising second novel Lispectors signature narrative style, which borders on stream-of-consciousness, is the vehicle for Virginias existential dilemmas and her observations about a world from which she often seems removed.?The Chandelier?includes all the earmarks of Lispectors other work, too: a deep anguish, a search for the heart of human existence, and the unbearable weight of a solitude that is imperative to ultimate freedom. It is a lyrical outpouring of sensation and perception...Lispector is up to some extraordinary things. The revival of the hypnotic Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the 21st century. It's a shaggy stop-motion masterpiece, plotless and argument-less and obsessed with the nature of thought....Every page vibrates with feeling. It's not enough to say that Lispector bends language, or uses words in new ways. Plenty of modernists do that. No one else writes prose this rich. Lispectors second novel is a breathless, dizzying and multi?sensory dive into the mind...The first English translation of A vulnerable and moving performancewith a heart-stopping payoff....an undeniable quantity of genius. Lispector's signature brilliance lies in the minutely observed gradations of her characters' feelings and of their elusive, half-formed thoughts. This is a haunting family fable, and will fascinate those seeking a glimpse at Lispectors genius in development. [L]yrical, sensual, philosophical...gorgeous, unsettling prose... One of the twentieth centurys most mysterious writers.? Better than Borges. Utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing. Virginias memory of the chandelier as an adult is as strange and ambiguous as the rest of the moments in the novel, deeply introspective and without a clear meaning, but the energy and spiritual wonder of her descriptions make the cryptic writing all the more resonant and spiritually urgent for both her charactelƒ1