Clarice Lispector - An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures BOOK REVIEW

[@bsnoguera]

One of Clarice's advantages is that even for those who worry about spoilers, she's unspoilable. She's so indescribable that the idea of a spoiler doesn't make sense.

[@Grouchator]

There is no one who had such a firm grasp on what it's like to be a thing existing in the universe with consciousness. Clarice Lispector is probably my favorite writer of all time.

[@emin5488]

This comment should on the the cover of one her books. 🙌

[@iameternalsunshine]

@@emin5488 I agree

[@robinbergfeld5140]

Everything is no one.

[@zhennessey]

Thank you for bringing attention to Clarice. She deserves greater recognition for her creativity. She reinvented language and her consciousness at the same time. New Directions is a great publisher.

[@liquidpebbles7475]

Clarice Lispector is a titan, not only her novels but her short stories as well are such a flex of both hard worked talent and genius

[@mirsad3474]

Clarice's writing is what I imagined literature is like before I picked up my first book.

[@luizappicanco]

I’m a simple woman. I see Clarice, I click. Nice video.

[@gustavosousa3554]

mano eu fico tão feliz sabendo que o Cliff gosta tanto de Clarice e Machado

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

Really enjoyed “The Hour of the Star.”

[@brunaoliveira4941]

That's my favorite book of hers. I learned so much from it, as the name insinuates. I remember sending you a message about it on IG, maybe last year. So good to see brazilian authors making the world, and your part in it is amazing.

[@maristiller4033]

Lispector is amazing! I’ve just been getting into her, reading The Hour of the Star last year and Near to the Wild Heart recently. She’s just so damn good!

[@pedocajitsu]

❤

[@juliannyreads]

Such a wonderful review! :D Clarice is really one of the best authors of all time! I'm thankful for being Brazilian so I can read her work in Portuguese (her books are definitely not easy to read but surely very pleasantly) And Clarice was also a translator, she translated "Interview with the Vampire" to Portuguese. Very talented woman!

[@timkjazz]

Absolutely love her work, a titan of literature.

[@alexiphigenia1618]

I think I love your reviews more than I love the books - so engaging, witty, deep, smart, authentic, so well-edited. Works of art in and of themselves. Thank you for doing you. The world would be a lot less interesting if you weren't!

[@MrMarkLambrecht]

Thanks for the Boxwalla suggestion!

[@ricardodeoliveira5846]

Great, another Lispector review

[@amaro3552]

love seeing this woman still being recognize over the world

[@FlintSL]

Read The Hour of The Star about a month ago. One of the best I have ever read, quite simply.

[@SergioRamos-lz2ql]

Thank you so much for spreading our literature. I would love to interview you sometime. Thank for all videos about my beloved Lispector.

[@nellsea8086]

She's my absolute favorite author

[@chelseyummali]

I came here about to buy this book. I'd never heard of Clarice before...2:50 min in and I'm clicking out to buy the book in my shopping cart haha 😄

[@andrewmatthews5477]

Thanks for this. There seems to be a steady stream of translations of her work through New Directions. I wasn't crazy about "The Chandelier," but I love her other novels and the short story collection is peerless.

[@beatrizoliveira6931]

Clarice is unique, reading her it’s just like floating in thoughts. You need to get “A Breath of Life “ by her, it’s the most beautiful and painful experience a book can provide (a deep encounter with your inner self).

[@semiote]

After watching your GH video, I read it, and then spent the winter reading through almost everything Lispector wrote: the complete short stories, seven of her novels, and the Moser biography. An Apprenticeship and A Breath of Life, as well as the Selected Cronicas, are all I have left. An Apprenticeship was next on my docket, so this video came at just the right moment! Her writings are a world unto themselves. I'd love to see you do a video on...well, anything else by her, but Hour of the Star (which I just read) in particular. It's very short, but a unique love story itself, about the toll of poverty but also about the ways in which intellect can fill us with too much self-importance to make contact with the divine...

[@bighardbooks770]

I've read several Lispector novels and stories and have enjoyed them, all. I'm going to start _The Apprenticeship,_ tonight. Thanks for all your Clarence Lispector reviews, Cliff.

[@aishwaryakorwar3242]

This was such a good review. I absolutely loved the book and your review sums it up so amazing. thank you.

[@utschb18]

Wait for the Brazilian Storm!! Clarice is our goddess in literature!!

[@avamiscelano]

oh, this one is precious. 'im from brazil, this is my favourite one from Clarice. I was even taking a look on it the other day.

[@hbaird7258]

I have the beautiful New Directions Complete Stories sitting on my shelf and this is a great motivator to finally crack into it. thanks!

[@ML-yw4hv]

thank you for this safe space in youtube, in my life.

[@scott5343]

Is that the friendly spine of The Brothers Karamazov I spy?! Oh I'd love to see that review one day, I immensely enjoyed that book.

[@emilytorres408]

Just finished reading this novel and my first book from her. Really love her writing, I agree how it’s feminine and I look forward to her other writing.

[@EatWearTravel]

"Un soplo de vida" is also amazing! My Clarice's fav book ever

[@BNK2442]

*Um Sopro de Vida

[@EatWearTravel]

@@BNK2442 Spanish is not Portuguese. LOL

[@BNK2442]

@@EatWearTravel The rule of the internet is, you either write the original book name, or the name the book received in the translation of the language we are currently speaking. So no random spanish names. :-P

[@EatWearTravel]

@@BNK2442 The rule of the internet is not mansplaining. 😴😴😴

[@BNK2442]

@@EatWearTravel Did you actually used this word? Christ, you know that only losers actually think that this is a thing, right?

[@juergencannes7494]

One of the greatest bonus of being Brazilian is to read her in full delight

[@starfoxstarfish48484]

Clif. The release date for McCarthys new book has been announced as well as the cover art for the box set . It's going to be the novel and a companion coda novel released together .

[@jabolko]

And another book on my list to read 🙂 tnx for the review!

[@vcackermanwrites]

“I humanized myself” is a very interesting and poetic way to put it.

[@fneedler]

One day you should review one of the deSade's books on your shelf above your left shoulder

[@sildonneto6127]

Bela resenha sobre a nossa esfinge grandiosa. Clarice foi e é uma das maiores desse mundo, inigualável. Se você gostou de Uma aprendeizagem ou livros dos prazes, eu tenho certeza que vc também irá gostar de A hora da estrela.É simplesmente fenomenal and its definetly better than food, it worths it :)))

[@emin5488]

Do you have a podcast ? If no, then YOU SHOULD! I'd listen to anything you'd say or talk about. (You are the reason I discovered Clarice Lispector, by the way.) 🇩🇿 ✌

[@Roderik46]

could you review The Besieged City by Lispector?

[@marcelovolcato8892]

Do you realise you have a great following among Brazilians? We all kind of love you, we believe you're better than food.

[@jackwalter5970]

I have a used copy of her The Apple in the Dark. Going to start it soon. It's almost impossible to find.

[@guiapsico]

Cheers from Brazil! Btw Clarice's collection of short stories is precious too (like: A descoberta do mundo). I recommend 🤩 Love your work 🇧🇷

[@rafaelmosquim4136]

Love Clarice, always get in some trance-induced state when reading her, even though not actually understanding everything. Or because of it, who knows. But I would check Grande Sertão: Veredas from Guimarães Rosa before stating she is the greatest Brazilian writer of the XXth century =]

[@LuneFlaneuse]

She’s magnificent. Clarice 💚 🇧🇷 💙 🇺🇦 💛

[@joeshite]

Quite the time indeed, Cliff

[@majuoliveira8703]

great review ❤

[@fabif3451]

Wonderful video!!!

[@brandonqarana8277]

Thanks!

[@therodolfool]

Nice review as always 🤌

[@gustavogodoy3014]

I can't believe you still haven't read The Hour of The Star!!! Do yoursef a favor a read that one :)

[@humanfirst11]

Probably the fastest that I have commented on your video! 😊😊 Gonna be a good day ahead 😎👍

[@umrinoceronte]

Please, u need meet Caio Fernando Abreu. Brazilian Literature is indescribable!

[@caiomendes4178]

Since you reacted for the first Clarice, I am waiting for the “Hour of the star” moment, i was so young when i read this book at school and i think the “hour of the star” changed me/touched me in some kind of way… we know the Clarice’s write is a kind of witchcraft and can touch us in misterious way…. In “Hour of Star”, Clarice slyly subvert ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself, it is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world.

[@tealorturquoise]

Clarice Listpector is better than food yes but amplified into the infinite.

[@Freakdori]

the yt recommended me to watch this....and i was a bit confused since you looked familiar then i checked you other content...apparently I had only watched ur content with the mustache.... now on the way to watch all of them.

[@anridvalishvili5908]

Review james joyce's ulysses dude. We are looking forward

[@OllieGio]

Respect the Nitsch book on the shelf there. Rest in peace!

[@maconovercast802]

Can you review Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood?

[@justinjohnson749]

God damn you! I have too many fucking books to buy because of you!

[@exploringhispanicstudies]

Oh, and you like Lispector, too? Here are some thoughts on The Hour of the Star: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYexYZuDjaZnqMU

[@Chloe-rs7nw]

I suspect the Russian’s do not share your opinion 😛. Another great review. Thank you 🙏.

[@italorodrigueslopes]

Problably Guimarães Rosa is the greatest brazilian author from the last century, and with him there is Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Maybe Clarice is the 3rd place, with Graciliano Ramos and João Cabral de Melo neto.

[@LincclayLB]

ele gostou? não entendo nada...

[@dfk09]

Gostou. Ele é um grande fã dela.

[@dM-ij1we]

Long live the dead because they live in us. 🤯

[@isabelrosas4454]

Have you read anything by Sylvia Plath?? Would love to see a video of that.

[@vitorribeiro2647]

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[@BerndSchnabl]

complex AND simple ?? make your mind up before you hit the record button 😉

[@profvictorpompeo]

It's almost as if things can be multifaceted

[@andrewmatthews5477]

I know I left a comment on your channel at some point about Jordan Peterson. I like your takes on literature, and I think Jordan Peterson is a toxic charlatan.

[@bookauthor5676]

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