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PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS TOO MUCH OF LIFE - CL...

A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest
twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life 'How did I so
unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and
1977  the internationally renowned author Clarice Lispector wrote weekly dispatches from her
desk in Rio for the Jornal do Brasil. Already famous for her revolutionary  interior 
metaphysical novels and short stories  in her Chronicles she turned her attention to the
everyday  reshaping the material of her life into profound  touching and funny  tiny
revelations. Observing the world around her  small encounters like hearing tales of the lost
loves of a taxi driver  or the bitterness lurking beneath the prettiness of an old friend 
become an exposition of the currents and foibles that define our lives. Everything from the
meaning of cosmonauts to the new ideas  writers and artists that populate the sparkling
international world of the sixties and seventies are considered and transformed into jewels of
insight  delight and devastation. Sincere and playful  exhilarating and contemplative  Too Much
of Life: Complete Chronicles opens up a new way of seeing the world.

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