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The Foreign Legion

Name: The Foreign Legion
Author: Clarice Lispector
ISBN: 9780811211895

by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero

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Overview

The Foreign Legion is a collection in two parts, gathering both stories and chronicles, and it offers wonderful evidence of Clarice Lispector's unique sensibility and range as an exponent of experimental prose. It opens with thirteen stories and the second part of the book presents her newspaper crônicas, which Lispector said she retrieved from a bottom drawer.

Synopsis

The Foreign Legion opens with thirteen stories. Delightful, vivid, sometimes mordantly funny, sometimes sad beyond words. Together the stories and chronicles create a showcase of Lispector's talents to amuse and disturb.

About the Author, Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector (1925-1977) has come to be considered the most important woman writer in contemporary Brazilian letters. The author of seven novels and short-story collections as well as children's books, her translated work—into Czech, Spanish, French, German and English—has gained her a strong international reputation.