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A review by quenchgum
An Apprenticeship, or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
4.0
Girl has some kind of loosely-defined epiphany and emerges as a woman. Like a normal bildungsroman, except that nothing really happens plot-wise and it’s purposefully impossible to put into words what she learned during her epiphany because it’s all so loose and scattered and deep and it’s just really all about your feelings, man.
The gender/patriarchy stuff in here is really dated, and it’s jarring how central it is to the story. I would have hated this if it were written by a man. I talked about it with my therapist, and we think I should just chalk it up to it being written in the ‘70s.
The gender/patriarchy stuff in here is really dated, and it’s jarring how central it is to the story. I would have hated this if it were written by a man. I talked about it with my therapist, and we think I should just chalk it up to it being written in the ‘70s.