An apprenticeship, or, The book of pleasures
(2021)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/LISPECTOR,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : New Directions, 2021
DESCRIPTION
ix, 149 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780811230612, 0811230619, 9780811230612
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"A New Directions book"
"In The Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures, Clarice Lispector tries to discover how to bridge the gap between people, or how to even begin to try. A woman struggles to emerge from solitude and sadness into love, including sexual love: her guide on this journey is Ulisses, who (yes) leads her patiently into the fullness of life."--
Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. She meets Ulisses, a professor of philosopher, who offers her a chance to embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. -- adapted from jacket