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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 869.3 EAN: 9780816617821 ISBN: 0816617821 Label: University of Minnesota Press Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 79 Publication Date: 1989-06 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Studio: University of Minnesota Press Related Items:
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 Rating: - I'm Scared That I Don't Find This All That DifficultAnd that nobody has reviewed this piece for four years and I'm only the third one ever to do it. Maybe I've read too much Joyce, Cixous, Beckett, Celan, Kristeva, et al, but I am surprised to see all the reviews on this page refer to this piece's difficulty. It's ecriture feminine along the line of Beckett's _Unnamable_. What could make more sense? Either I'm irrevocably warped or I've attained to the rhapsodic state of "it" that she so effortlessly riffs on and dances around/within--spins, hums. ... Read More Rating: - The Continuous Stream of BeingClarice Lispector's "Stream of Life" takes her experimentations with language in "The Passion According to G.H" to an even more abstract level in this novella, if anyone can define it as such. Her fluid use of symbols and language attemps at the impossible: narrating the unspeakable. From this perspective, the reader can appreciate the apparently meaningless meandering of her words and let go of trying to understand. In her own words, "Let go of understanding. To be alive far surpasses the limits of understanding." ... Read More Rating: - startling and beautiful; one of my favorite booksThis is by no means an easy read, but it is beautiful. Lispector is often compared to Joyce; her psychological landscapes and stream of consciousness writing can be likened to his. However, Lispector's writing is thoroughly Brazilian, warm and soft, feminine, dreamlike, interior, yet unafraid of starker realities at the same time. Stream of Life, Lispector's masterpiece, poses the question, "What does it mean to be at the crux of life?" In the process of asking this question, the book's sense of time and concrete reality ... Read More 
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