Agua Viva

A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector s, Agua Viva stands out as a particular triumph.”

One of 20th-century Brazil’s most intriguing and mystifying writers.

This is a book that, like a good painting, can be picked up anywhere and that will continue to reward renewed contact over months and years of acquaintance.
Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself.–Scott Esposito (06/21/2012)

Brilliant and unclassifiable… Glamorous, cultured, moody, Lispector is an emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce.–Edmund White