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A challenge for the psychoanalysts: I dreamed that a fish was taking its clothes off and remained naked.
— Oct 09, 2026 05:58AM
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Out on the street, I stood for ages inhaling the smell of life. It is a combination of flesh, of body odour and petrol, sea-breezes and perspiration under armpits: the smell of what still has to die.
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Most people are dead without realizing it or they live like charlatans.
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Oct 09, 2026 09:43AM
In Portuguese this made me laugh, in English it sounds more serious somehow, more cryptic. Not to say Clarice is easier in the original, but I wonder if her dry sense of humor translates well, in her crônicas particularly she can be very lighthearted, although, admittedly, her sense of humor escapes even Portuguese readers. Ok, sorry for the rambling!
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No apology necessary! Please ramble all you'd like. That is very interesting to hear. I am finding her to be on the lighthearted side here in comparison to her fiction.
I'm super interested in her, I read Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector a few years ago and it was very insightful, she used to say her best work was in the novels, then she would "die" and wait to be reborn again, that's something she said in her only televised interview (it's subtitled on youtube - GR would not let me embed the link here sadly). She saw her crônicas as a job it seems, they're less cryptic and dense, but still so interesting, her mind was a precious thing. They published a book compiling all the letters she wrote and that's been on my list for months, I bet she shines even on her mail. Have you read any of her novels?
Thanks for mentioning the interview -- I'll have to look that up. Yes, I've read a few of her novels as well as a couple of collections of her short stories. I think she's a fascinating writer who can also be quite challenging. (Of course, I'm reading her in English translation, so there is also that.)