#selected cronicas

[theoptia]

Clarice Lispector, from Selected Cronicas

[dk-thrive]

In a state of grace, one sometimes perceives the deep beauty, hitherto unattainable, of another person. And everything acquires a kind of halo which is not imaginary: it comes from the splendor of the almost mathematical light emanating from people and things. One starts to feel that everything in existence—whether people or things—breathes and exhales the subtle light of energy. The world’s truth is impalpable.

— Clarice Lispector, Selected Crônicas. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. (New Directions, November 17, 1996).

[flowerytale]

Clarice Lispector, from “Raging Against the Typewriter”, Selected Cronicas (tr. Giovanni Pontiero)

[ioversonfilm]

clarice lispector, selected cronicas- the egg and the chicken (1996)

[llovelymoonn]

selected crônicas: "excess and privation"

the hour of the star

a breath of life

the passion according to g.h. (tr. idra novey)

água viva

near to the wild heart

um sopro de vida (tr. johnny lorenz)

soulstorm: stories: “miss algrave” (tr. alexis levitin)

the hour of the star (tr. benjamin moser)

a breath of life

words by clarice lispector

[desescrita]

“I cannot reveal half the things I would do if it were left to me. I believe I might even end up in jail for certain crimes. And if it were left to me, I should give away everything that is mine and entrust the future to the future.”

— Clarice Lispector, “If It Were Me” in Selected Cronicas (trans. Giovanni Pontiero)

[hush-syrup]

I can no longer recall where it began but I know I did not start at the beginning. It was, in a manner of speaking, all written simultaneously.

From Selected Crônicas by Clarice Lispector

[flowerytale]

Clarice Lispector, from "The Egg And The Chicken", Selected Cronicas (tr. by Giovanni Pontiero)