The besieged city

Lispector, Clarice (author.). Lorenz, Johnny, (translator.). Moser, Benjamin, (editor.).

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."

Item details

ISBN: 9780811226714
ISBN: 0811226719
Physical Description: print
xxi, 213 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York : New Directions, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Originally published as A Cidade Sitiada in 1949.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.

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