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Hard cover, 8vo in black cloth with printed silver titles to spine, 213pp. CONDITION: Fine in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket with a mylar protector. This 2019 English translation from the original Portuguese of the Ukrainian-born first woman of Brazilian literature, Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), had to wait more than seventy years to be published for an English-reading audience. In this experimental, modernist novel written in the 1940's, a young woman, Lucrécia Neves, negotiates passage from an obscure, country existence with a widowed mother into the world of men; dating, commitment and eventually marriage. It has a ring of Ibsen's "Hedda Gabbler" or "A Doll's House." However, the allegorical "vehicles" employed by the author in this instance are wild horses versus the more regulated city life of automobiles and trains. Can Lucrécia leave the taint of being a "backwoods bride" behind and find fulfillment married to the none-too-faithful lawyer, Matteus Correia? Does her independence survive being muted with the "things" he can provide? Scarce to market in hardcover. (AMJ)
Ref: CLAR 9736
$75.00