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Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas

By Clarice Lispector, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
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By Clarice Lispector, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
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In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her crônicas—short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces—are the delicious canapés

The things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don’t know. Or maybe they do even when they don’t. There are various ways of knowing by not-knowing. I know: it happens to me too.

The crônica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows ...

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