A review by iammyowngodandmartyr
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
2.0
EXTREMELY unimpressed with the introduction. This man just rambling on about how Lispector's writing is like witchcraft would be less irritating if there weren't such a long and shitty history of men associating women with witchcraft to trivialize/criminalize their work. Sometimes a woman is just weirdgood at writing and you don't have to use mysticism analogies to explain it to people. Like why are you pushing this so hard. She's not a fucking witch, dude. She's just a person who wrote things that people connected with.
Re: the stories themselves, I think short stories are like etudes and more fun to write/play than to read/listen to. Lispector's were often beautiful and bewildering but also depressing and outdated (e.g. "dusky like a Hindu", the story with "the He-she", every fat female character having intense self-loathing and/or moral deficiency, etc). Recommended for fans of Sylvia Plath.
Re: the stories themselves, I think short stories are like etudes and more fun to write/play than to read/listen to. Lispector's were often beautiful and bewildering but also depressing and outdated (e.g. "dusky like a Hindu", the story with "the He-she", every fat female character having intense self-loathing and/or moral deficiency, etc). Recommended for fans of Sylvia Plath.