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A review by souptime
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Ah if I had known that it were like that I wouldn't have been born. Ah if I had known I wouldn't have been born. Madness borders the cruellest good sense. This is a brain tempest and one sentence barely has anything to do with the next. I swallow the madness that is no madness-- it's something else. Do you understand me? But I'll have to stop because I'm so and so tired that only dying would release me from this fatigue. I'm leaving."
Agua Viva was exactly as Lispector herself describes it. This book made me reflect less on the content, in a way, and more about how I was consuming it: not even 100 pages, yet bearing so many reflections that you'd think you need to take a week to think about it before going over to the next page. Yet you can't stop: it's a train and you are on board. The opening words were exploding but little did I know the book would keep on exploding page after page. I did truly love it. So much that I'm writing about it, so much that I'm tearing up. I know Lispector is dead and gone, but it does feel like she's an ineffable being - even in front of death - she's fast and she's liquid. When she wrote "I'm not going to die, you hear, God? I don't have the courage, you hear? Don't kill me, you hear?" I felt like that was exactly what was going to happen.
Thank you so much Clarice Lispector, there is so much I cannot put into words about this-- you would understand.
Agua Viva was exactly as Lispector herself describes it. This book made me reflect less on the content, in a way, and more about how I was consuming it: not even 100 pages, yet bearing so many reflections that you'd think you need to take a week to think about it before going over to the next page. Yet you can't stop: it's a train and you are on board. The opening words were exploding but little did I know the book would keep on exploding page after page. I did truly love it. So much that I'm writing about it, so much that I'm tearing up. I know Lispector is dead and gone, but it does feel like she's an ineffable being - even in front of death - she's fast and she's liquid. When she wrote "I'm not going to die, you hear, God? I don't have the courage, you hear? Don't kill me, you hear?" I felt like that was exactly what was going to happen.
Thank you so much Clarice Lispector, there is so much I cannot put into words about this-- you would understand.