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A review by floralfox
The Foreign Legion by Clarice Lispector
2.0
It took me a year to get through this (relatively small) collection.
A year.
I mean, sometimes I misplaced it, yeah, but it's dense, it's no easy thing to just flip along and read. I'll be honest. I still had like 15 pages left but I was so tired of it.
I like Lispector a lot. I read Hour of the Star and fell in love. And I thought the first half of this collection was more entertaining than the second, bt by now I hardly remember it. I was glad I got a used copy; there were some insightful notes in the margins. I think I would've done better going through this collection in a class setting where I was forced to sit and analyze things.
Lispector has a magnificent way with words, I think I just prefer her novel structures.
A year.
I mean, sometimes I misplaced it, yeah, but it's dense, it's no easy thing to just flip along and read. I'll be honest. I still had like 15 pages left but I was so tired of it.
I like Lispector a lot. I read Hour of the Star and fell in love. And I thought the first half of this collection was more entertaining than the second, bt by now I hardly remember it. I was glad I got a used copy; there were some insightful notes in the margins. I think I would've done better going through this collection in a class setting where I was forced to sit and analyze things.
Lispector has a magnificent way with words, I think I just prefer her novel structures.