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El tiempo
Escondida y discreta se balanceaba – y ese era el sentido de vivir segundo a segundo inhalando y expirando; no se respiraba todo lo que se tenía que respirar, no se vivía de una sola vez, el tiempo era lento, extraño al cuerpo, se vivía del tiempo.
Entró en el asilo de pobres a los ciento siete años. El tiempo fue pasando. Ella lo llenaba, al tiempo, viviendo. No tenía otra cosa que hacer. Y allá está todavía hoy – con ciento quince años. Cada vez más pequeña, cada vez más sucinta. Ciento quince son muchos años: “¿está seguro de que no se engaña o miente o ya no piensa bien?” pregunté. Mi interlocutor dijo que también tenía dudas al respecto, pero que le habían asegurado que, si bien no tenía documentos, era efectivamente así. Y una de las pruebas estaba en el hecho de la presencia, en ese mismo asilo, de un viejo de ochenta y dos años coterráneo de la viejita de ciento quince. Y que había sido amamantado por ella... La madre del viejito no tenía leche y él fue alimentado por la viejita, en aquel entonces plena y joven. Y allí, en el mismo asilo, está el amamantado que no me deja mentir.
Entró en el asilo de pobres a los ciento siete años. El tiempo fue pasando. Ella lo llenaba, al tiempo, viviendo. No tenía otra cosa que hacer. Y allá está todavía hoy – con ciento quince años. Cada vez más pequeña, cada vez más sucinta. Ciento quince son muchos años: “¿está seguro de que no se engaña o miente o ya no piensa bien?” pregunté. Mi interlocutor dijo que también tenía dudas al respecto, pero que le habían asegurado que, si bien no tenía documentos, era efectivamente así. Y una de las pruebas estaba en el hecho de la presencia, en ese mismo asilo, de un viejo de ochenta y dos años coterráneo de la viejita de ciento quince. Y que había sido amamantado por ella... La madre del viejito no tenía leche y él fue alimentado por la viejita, en aquel entonces plena y joven. Y allí, en el mismo asilo, está el amamantado que no me deja mentir.
248 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2014
About the author
Clarice Lispector
259 books10.2k followersClarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.
She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered revolutionary in Brazil.
She left Brazil in 1944, following her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, and spent the next decade and a half in Europe and the United States. Upon return to Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she began producing her most famous works, including the stories of Family Ties (Laços de Família), the great mystic novel The Passion According to G.H. (A Paixão Segundo G.H.), and the novel many consider to be her masterpiece, Água Viva. Injured in an accident in 1966, she spent the last decade of her life in frequent pain, steadily writing and publishing novels and stories until her premature death in 1977.
She has been the subject of numerous books and references to her, and her works are common in Brazilian literature and music. Several of her works have been turned into films, one being 'Hour of the Star' and she was the subject of a recent biography, Why This World, by Benjamin Moser.
She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered revolutionary in Brazil.
She left Brazil in 1944, following her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, and spent the next decade and a half in Europe and the United States. Upon return to Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she began producing her most famous works, including the stories of Family Ties (Laços de Família), the great mystic novel The Passion According to G.H. (A Paixão Segundo G.H.), and the novel many consider to be her masterpiece, Água Viva. Injured in an accident in 1966, she spent the last decade of her life in frequent pain, steadily writing and publishing novels and stories until her premature death in 1977.
She has been the subject of numerous books and references to her, and her works are common in Brazilian literature and music. Several of her works have been turned into films, one being 'Hour of the Star' and she was the subject of a recent biography, Why This World, by Benjamin Moser.
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June 29, 2020
ah! clarice!! você nunca decepciona, diz o que tenho medo ou não sei como dizer. se expressa de formas inimagináveis. cada pagina é uma vontade incontrolável de dizer que você é a minha alma gêmea! infelizmente, a edição tem seus defeitos, as vezes não tem pé nem cabeça, se perde no rumo da historias, esses recortes não foram capazes de te dá o que você merece.
July 23, 2025
Queria dizer que esse livro é uma viagem psicodélica sem precisar fazer uso de psicodélicos.
"Eu mesma vivo me levantando e caindo de novo e me levantando. Não sei qual é o bem disso; sei que é dessa forma confusa de vida que eu vivo."
"Eu mesma vivo me levantando e caindo de novo e me levantando. Não sei qual é o bem disso; sei que é dessa forma confusa de vida que eu vivo."
September 5, 2017
Não vejo sentido picotar a obra da Clarice e fazer um livro com frases soltas. Imagino que deu trabalho fazer essa edição mas não valeu a pena.
February 1, 2018
Insufrible. No pude ni terminarlo.
April 19, 2019
Clarice é ótima, a organização do livro, não.
December 10, 2019
Eu amo! Clarice era única.
Meu favorito.
Meu favorito.
March 21, 2016
Muita loucura fora de ordem.
December 21, 2016
Excepcional.
"Não tenho nada o que dizer. Acho que é assim que os velhos honestos terminam por não dizer nada".
"Não tenho nada o que dizer. Acho que é assim que os velhos honestos terminam por não dizer nada".
January 16, 2020
Enigmática, poética, seductora; las palabras de Clarice Lispector elevan el arte literario hasta alturas inimaginables.
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