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Quase de verdade e outros contos
As cinco obras aqui reproduzidas representam a íntegra da produção infanto-juvenil de Clarice Quase de verdade, A vida íntima de Laura, O mistério do coelho pensante, A mulher que matou os peixes e Como nasceram as estrelas. São relatos repletos de magia e humor e, em muitos casos, baseados em experiências de vida da própria Clarice, dona da rara habilidade de transformar incidentes banais do cotidiano em histórias universais, atemporais e inesquecíveis.
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Published January 1, 2022
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Clarice Lispector
246 books8,214 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 4, 2025
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April 4, 2024
Afinal, já tinha lido alguns dos contos presentes neste livro...
O Mistério do Coelho Pensante
A Vida Íntima de Laura
A Mulher que Matou os Peixes
Relembrei-me de que não gostei especialmente de os ler... oops, sacrilégio, talvez... Mas a verdade é que são violentos (falam de morte e agressão, de "burrice" natural de galinha, enfim, não fala de temas habituais da literatura para crianças, o que não é necessariamente mau... Mas sinceramente, achei as histórias demasiado abaurdas, e não ficam bonitinhas apenas porque a narradora fala directamente com as pessoas que a estão a ler, as quais ela presume que sejam criancinhas)...
Gostei mais das doze lendas brasileiras reunidas sob o título "Como nasceram as estrelas", porque gosto muito de lendas e/ou histórias de folclore tradicional. As outras... eh!
O Mistério do Coelho Pensante
A Vida Íntima de Laura
A Mulher que Matou os Peixes
Relembrei-me de que não gostei especialmente de os ler... oops, sacrilégio, talvez... Mas a verdade é que são violentos (falam de morte e agressão, de "burrice" natural de galinha, enfim, não fala de temas habituais da literatura para crianças, o que não é necessariamente mau... Mas sinceramente, achei as histórias demasiado abaurdas, e não ficam bonitinhas apenas porque a narradora fala directamente com as pessoas que a estão a ler, as quais ela presume que sejam criancinhas)...
Gostei mais das doze lendas brasileiras reunidas sob o título "Como nasceram as estrelas", porque gosto muito de lendas e/ou histórias de folclore tradicional. As outras... eh!
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