The Chandelier

Description

The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of “Hurricane Clarice.”
Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a decaying country mansion. They leave for the city, but the change of locale leaves Virginia’s internal life unperturbed. In intensely poetic language, Lispector conducts a stratigraphic excavation of Virginia’s thoughts, revealing the drama of Clarice’s lifelong quest to discover “the nucleus made of a single instant”–and displaying a new face of this great writer, blazing with the vitality of youth.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Clarice Lispector,Magdalena Edwards (Translator),Benjamin Moser (Translator)
Published: 05/28/2019
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811228718
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 7.90″ L x 5.50″ W

About the Author
Lispector, Clarice: – Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and “one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk).Edwards, Magdalena: – Magdalena Edwards is a writer, translator, and actor. Her work has appeared in the Boston Review, the Paris Review Daily, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Millions.Moser, Benjamin: – General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector’s complete works at New Directions, Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector; Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; and The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters.