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ESTOU APRENDENDO A LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA POR ELA.

CLARICE LISPECTOR: A MELHOR.

>>19023270
>As a Brazilian I honestly can't understand why the world now thinks that Clarice Lispector is so great.

IT IS A MATTER OF RATIONALITY, AND OF TASTE, NOT OF NATIONALITY.


>Brazilian Anons or foreign Anons who like Clarice, what do you like about her work? Any excerpts you could quote?

HER WORKS ARE GENIAL; HER STYLE IS BAROQUISTICALLY ECCENTRIC; SHE WROTE AS IF SHE WERE TRANSCRIBING LONG COGITATIVE SOLILOQUIES, ABSTRACTING FROM SOMETHING OBJECTIVE, RUMINATING OVER IT, MAKING LATERAL ASSOCIATIONS, AND VALUE JUDGEMENTS, BEFORE RETURNING TO THE OBJECT, AND TO THE NARRATIVE; THIS WAS SO REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE NARRATION WAS IN FIRST PERSON, OR IN THIRD PERSON.

SHE TOOK THE DEVICE OF «STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS», AND AUGMENTED & OPTIMIZED IT; NOONE HAS EQUALLED, NOR BETTERED, HER.

«ÁGUA VIVA» IS HER BEST WORK, AND THE BEST EXEMPLAR OF HER GENIALITY.


>I've read a lot of reviews talking about how "poetic" her language is, and how powerful the "verbal beauty" of her books is. But honestly, I have never found anything in her work that compares to the best passages in Fernando Pessoa,

«FERNANDO PESSOA» WAS A MEDIOCRE PENGUIN.


>… Shakespeare, or the poems of Emily Dickinson, the prose of Melville...

AN ANGLOPHILIC LUSOPHONE —STRANGE!


>… and the Book of Job.

THE BOOK OF JOB IS SACRED SCRIPTURE, NOT LITERATURE; THE COMPARISON IS INAPT.


>I'm proud that an author who wrote in Portuguese is being so fervently celebrated, but I can't help thinking that there are a number of extra-literary elements being factored into Lispector's great acclaim.

WHY DO YOU THINK THAT REGARDING CLARICE LISPECTOR, BUT NOT REGARDING «FERNANDO PESSOA» —OR WHATEVER HIS NAME WAS—?

>>18818524


CLARICE LISPECTOR ES LA MEJOR AUTORA LITERARIA QUE BRASIL HA PRODUCIDO; LA OBRA DE FLORA ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK ES CURSILERÍA MÓRBIDA PURA, PRODUCTO DE SU ENFERMEDAD MENTAL; CLARICE LISPECTOR FUE EXCÉNTRICA, PERO CUERDA, E INTROSPECTIVA DE VERDAD, NO PATÉTICA, COMO PIZARNIK.

A COMPARAR:

POEMA LISPECTOR:


>«QUIEN MUCHO AGRADA DESAGRADA».

>Nunca he oído este proverbio, creo que acabo de inventarlo. Pero vas a ver cómo este proverbio, inventado o

>no, se aplica a las personas que conoces: las que quieren

>agradar a cualquier precio. Entonces se vuelven «encantadoras». Intentan adivinar los mínimos deseos de los otros.

>Intentan elogiar de cualquier forma. Empiezan también

>a mostrar que se sacrifican a cada momento. Este tipo encantador pesa en el alma de los demás. En una palabra:

>desagrada.

>Si se consigue ser uno mismo y estar a gusto, se permite

>a los otros ser ellos mismos y estar a gusto.


POEMA PIZARNIK:


>«CENIZAS».

>La noche se astilló de estrellas

>mirándome alucinada

>el aire arroja odio

>embellecido su rostro

>con música.

>Pronto nos iremos

>Arcano sueño

>antepasado de mi sonrisa

>el mundo está demacrado

>y hay candado pero no llaves

>y hay pavor pero no lágrimas.

>¿Qué haré conmigo?

>Porque a Ti te debo lo que onions

>Pero no tengo mañana

>Porque a Ti te…

>La noche sufre.


SI LISPECTOR FUE «PUERIL» O «JUVENIL», QUÉ HABRÁ SIDO PIZARNIK?

>>17878834
you know you still would