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An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

Lispector, Clarice
Tobler, Stefan
Heti, Sheila

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0811232212
ISBN13: 9780811232210
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: May 3 2022
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only to love and to be loved, but also to be worthy of life itself.

Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector's attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller.

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