'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Tóibìn
'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love-liest way to see herself'
Lucrécia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrécia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed its author, The Besieged City is unlike any other work in Lispector's canon: a story of transformation, of what it means to see and to be seen.
| ISBN: | 9780241371374 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 2019 |
| Author: | Clarice Lispector |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 213 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |