Secret Happiness

Felicidade Clandestina

【Editor's Recommendation】
This collection of short stories by Clarice Lispector, a classic Brazilian modern writer known as "the most important Jewish writer after Kafka," contains 24 simple stories with profound philosophical implications. The themes and expressions vary, but all vaguely point to a common direction: the search for self or the establishment of self-awareness. It encompasses all the elements that Clarice cared about: self, truth, existence, origin, time, motherhood, expression...
【Media/Writer Recommendation】
Lispector makes language an agent of both imprisonment and liberation…and she does so with surprising ideas and playful emotion. —The New York Times
Lispector's intense emotions made her a natural short story writer. —The Times Literary Supplement
One of the most enigmatic writers of the 20th century, her writing is filled with vibrant colors. — Orhan Pamuk One of the hidden geniuses of the 20th century... born of the most original and daring soul. Lispector completely visualizes some of the most bizarre elements in her stories, as if they were trapped in a dream, about to awaken, and desperately needing a concrete entity. — Colm Tóibín If Kafka were a woman. If Rilke were a Jewish-Brazilian woman born in Ukraine. If Rimbaud had become a mother, if he had lived past fifty. If Heidegger was no longer German, if he had written worldly novels. Why do I mention so many names? To locate her. This is the realm of Clarice Lispector's writing. — Hélène Cixous
【Author's Statement】
I write because I have nothing to do in the world; I am superfluous, and there is no place for me in the human world. I write because I am desperate and tired. I can no longer endure being myself day after day. If it were not for the novelty of writing, I would symbolically die every day. For this secret, for this happiness, I create difficulties that do not exist. - Clarice Lispector

2018-04-01

人民文学出版社

162

9787020128969