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My 1st Lispector is unlike any novel I‘ve read. The whole book is the interior monologue of the main character, who seems to be on existential crisis as she muses on identity, death, religion,etc. Her complex philosophical ideas on life are perplexing to me; her thoughts are often contradictory & hard to follow, yet hypnotic. Not a book for everyone. For it being hypnotic & provocative merely from an encounter with a cockroach, it‘s not a ‘pan‘.

I‘ve been in quite the slump lately. Just finished one, and really enjoying this too! Hope this slump is over!

I can‘t believe Dom Casmurro was written in 1899. It‘s brilliant. I read the translation by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson.

People will think I am obsessed w/ cribs. I swear I'm not! I didn't know when I started this book that it was a kind of riff on nativity plays. It tells the story of Severino, a poor dispossessed peasant who follows the river to try his luck in Recife. All he finds along the way is death and poverty. And a carpenter called José who's just had a child. It is a Brazilian classic & deservedly so. A play in verse that's deep, moving, powerful.
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All I can think of is “Girl, Run“ 💀

Asimov's Robot Series. #Brazilian #boxset

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I loved Dona Flor's passionate and exquisite love triangle! There is magical realism and a delicious mix of samba rythms, carnivals, tasty dishes and Afro-Brazilian rituals for deities. Dona Flor loses her first love, her pain and mourning are excruciating, but she rediscovers love and remarries, although her first husband never really leaves her...