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A review by samwreads
Family Ties by Clarice Lispector
2.0
A couple very pretty stories but for the most part not really my cup of tea. Lispector focuses more on the minutiae and emotional interiors of her characters than any real story or dialogue. I thought I would like it but it never really clicked and I didn't find any of the characters all that interesting. The book's back cover says that Lispector's art found its apex in her short fiction but it seems to me that it would do better in novel form when given her emotional-interior set pieces could be given free reign.
My favorite stories were The Chicken (for its humor and comparative lightness), Preciousness (for the imagery and descriptive beauty), and The Crime of the Mathematics Professor (because I actually found the emotional struggle and decisions of the main character realistic and compelling).
My favorite stories were The Chicken (for its humor and comparative lightness), Preciousness (for the imagery and descriptive beauty), and The Crime of the Mathematics Professor (because I actually found the emotional struggle and decisions of the main character realistic and compelling).