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Clarice Lispector - Blog Posts
hi again! back here pretending i didn't say i'd be posting more and then disappeared. i hope there's someone here still, if there's not it's ok, let it be just me and my own tumblr shadow.
BUT if there is, i hope you're ok. been a long time, alot happened, it always does.
i went to the movies to watch one of my favorite movies of the year: 'ainda estou aqui' (i'm still here) by walter salles. it's really nice to see a brazilian film doing so well internationally.
there's a promo going on and i bought these books over ☝🏼 there. as always, camus, clarice and byung-chul han; then, ivan turgueniev, woolf (i've been wanting to buy for a long time), and today i received a dostoievski book too 👇🏼!
unfortunately 2 weeks (maybe?) ago, i got hurt on my left foot. i tried to get better but it didn't work; so yesterday during our very first game in the competition, it got worse. i had to go to the hospital. the result is me not allowed to put my left foot on the ground and jumping around the house on one leg only.
and to wrap it up, i literally just started 'the substance'. don't have anything to say yet cause i'm 10 minutes in - but the photography is insane! really really good. i hope the hype is well deserved.
to all of you, the ones reading or not, i wish you peace of mind. have a real nice december! 🤲🏼🩶
these are some books that i've bought recently. expecting lispector and camus of me should be common sense by now. and of course, literary theory. 🤍
clarice has been a great company these days. she speaks about god thru lóri's point of view, her believes, and it sounds a lot camus' absurdism! she says 'if i wanna pray, it would be to the cosmic or to Nothing'.
rainy days and depression, love to see it. 🌧🤍
i feel like clarice lispector broke me and saved me at the same time. viscerally affected by each sentence from 'água viva'.
started 'água viva' today. my first clarice! her writing is wow, i've been annotating a lot. so many thoughts already. just wild!
i was gonna go for run today, but gave up, it's been one of those lazy days. probably do some yoga before go to bed.
tomorrow i feel like it's gonna be a good day. (probably won't though) - let's keep it positive.
that's a goal: be more positive! 🤍🌧
Amar os outros é a única salvação individual que conheço: ninguém estará perdido se der amor e às vezes receber amor em troca.
Clarice Lispector
“Ouça: respeite a você mais do que aos outros, respeite suas exigências, respeite mesmo o que é ruim em você - respeite sobretudo o que você imagina que é ruim em você - pelo amor de Deus, não queira fazer de você uma pessoa perfeita - não copie uma pessoa ideal, copie você mesma - é esse o único meio de viver.” •Clarice Lispector 📚🌌🌕☄🛸
"When I surprise myself in the depths of the mirror I get a fright. I can hardly believe that I have limits, that I am cut out and defined. I feel scattered in the air, thinking inside other beings, living in things beyond myself."
-Clarice Lispector, "Near to the Wild Heart" (1943)
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?” - Clarice Lispector
Variations on a Theme - Gabrial Urbina / Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector / Still Unbeaten Life - Gang of Youghts / Saturn - Sleeping at Last
on living just for the sake of being alive
x / here, there are blueberries - mary szybist / invitation - mary oliver / walt whitman / to the young who want to die - gwendolyn brooks / madness: a bipolar life - marya hornbacher / thanksgiving 2006 - ocean vuong / the brothers karamazov - fyodor dostoyevsky / the bell jar - sylvia plath
Tonight the moon is full. Through the window the moon covers my bed and turns everything a milky bluish white. So I escape by closing my eyes. Because the full moon is light insomnia: numb and drowsy like after love.
Clarice Lispector, from "Água Viva" (tr. by Stefan Tobler)
me with The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
life is so good when ur reading a book and taking it w u everywhere like your little child
Hour of the Star
"This story takes place during a state of emergency and a public calamity. It's an unfinished book because it’s still waiting for an answer. An answer I hope someone in the world can give me. You? It’s a story in Technicolor to add a little luxury which, by God, I need too. Amen for all of us."
About the Book
Title: Hour of the Star Author: Clarice Lispector Published: 1977 Original Title: A Hora da Estrela
Summary
Macabéa is a typist living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. She is ugly and unloved. She loves movies and her horrible boyfriend. Her story is told by Rodrigo S.M., a narrator who spirals into philosophical musings about fate, poverty, and the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life as he unravels Macabéa’s existence.
This book will disturb you. It might make you feel horrible. And yet, you won’t be able to look away.
P.S.: The cockroach scene. You will never forget it. No matter how much you try.
Key Themes
social commentary
disturbing
identity
poverty