| Description |
xxi, 213 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Originally published as A Cidade Sitiada in 1949. |
| Summary |
Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with São Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucrécia is tamed by marriage, São Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives for the highest attainment it can conceive--a viaduct--it takes on the progressively more metropolitan manners that Lucrécia, with her vulgar ambitions, desires too. Yet it is precisely through this woman's superficiality--her identification with the porcelain knickknacks in her mother's parlor--that Clarice Lispector creates a profound and enigmatic meditation on "the mystery of the thing." |
| Contents |
The hill in the pasture -- The citizen -- The hunt -- The public statue -- In the garden -- Sketch of the city -- The alliance with the outsider -- The betrayal -- The exposed treasure -- The corn in the field -- The first deserters -- End of the construction: the viaduct. |
| Subject |
Women -- Fiction.
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Brazil -- Fiction.
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Brazil. (OCoLC)fst01206830
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Psychological fiction
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Lorenz, Johnny, translator.
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Moser, Benjamin, editor.
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| Added Title |
Cidade sitiada. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Lispector, Clarice. Besieged city. New York : New Directions, 2019 9780811226721 (DLC) 2018059175 |
| ISBN |
9780811226714 (hardcover) |
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0811226719 (hardcover) |
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