}}gua Viva [Paperback]

A meditation on the nature of life and time,This is a fictional account of a womans attempt to escape from conventional time and exist instead in a perpetually renewing this instant-now. Lispector pursued this same seemingly impossible aim through a number of books  getting closer and closer to the confused and thrilling feeling of fully conscious aliveness.Brilliant and unclassifiable& Glamorous, cultured, moody, Lispector is an emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce.This is a book that, like a good painting, can be picked up anywhere and that will continue to reward renewed contact over months and years of acquaintance.Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself. ?One of 20th-century Brazils most intriguing and mystifying writers.Lispector at her most philosophically radical.