The Apple in the Dark 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