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The Foreign Legion

Clarice Lispector

2015·226 pages

Literary Fiction

“A radiant beauty of a writer.”
— The Los Angeles Times

The Foreign Legion is a collection in two parts, gathering both stories and chronicles, and it offers wonderful evidence of Clarice Lispector's unique sensibility and range as an exponent of experimental prose. It opens with thirteen stories and the second part of the book presents her newspaper crônicas, which Lispector said she retrieved from a bottom drawer.

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The Foreign Legion

Clarice Lispector

Year

2015

Pages

226

Literary Fiction

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Praise

“A radiant beauty of a writer.”
— The Los Angeles Times

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The Foreign Legion is a collection in two parts, gathering both stories and chronicles, and it offers wonderful evidence of Clarice Lispector's unique sensibility and range as an exponent of experimental prose. It opens with thirteen stories and the second part of the book presents her newspaper crônicas, which Lispector said she retrieved from a bottom drawer.

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