Agua Viva
  • Published: 14 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141197364
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $22.99

Agua Viva

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14 Mar 2014
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28 Apr 2022
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A masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction

In Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and writers, including one Brazilian musician who read it one hundred and eleven times. Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.
  • Published: 14 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141197364
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for Agua Viva

An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce

Edmund White

Lispector stands at the pinnacle of Brazil's impressive literary achievement

Washington Post Book World

One of the very great writers of the last century

Guardian

A bewitching, jewel-like book unlike anything in modern literature. Agua Viva baffles and inspires me ... Each word of the book lands with the sweet force of a blade ... crystalline

Carlos Valladares, Gagosian Quarterly