Clarice Lispector - The Complete Stories - Penguin Edition Shelby Hartman “Back to animals

“Back to animals

since ancient times

‘Mabey’s memoir on his recovery from crippling depression through a rediscovery of his love for nature is quite remarkable both for its honesty and its total lack of ego

and continued until the last decade of her life

Matsuo Basho

Clarice Lispector - The Complete Stories - Penguin Edition Shelby Hartman “Back to animalsA favourite book of Lucrecia Dalt, selected for our 2020 Rewind. The publication of Clarice Lispector's Complete Stories, eighty five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with