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The Apple in the Dark (Texas Pan American)
The Apple in the Dark - Texas Pan American Author:Clarice Lispector Fleeing from the wife he believes he has murdered, Martim stumbles upon a remote farm run by Victoria, an iron-willed spinster, and her neurotic cousin Ermelinda. His arrival hurls each of the characters into an existential maze of self-confrontation, and, as in so much of Lispector's work, provides a vehicle for her fascinating and brilliant ex... more »amination of the relation between speech and act, reality and imitation, knowing and perceiving.
"The Apple in the Dark", the fourth novel by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1925-1977) and masterfully translated here by Gregory Rabassa, received the first National Book Award for Translation when it appeared in 1967.« less
ISBN-13: 9780292703926 ISBN-10: 0292703929 Publication Date: 9/1986 Pages:361 Edition:1st University of Te Rating: