Covert Joy Selected Stories
Covert Joy Selected Stories by Clarice Lispector is a radiant collection published by New Directions Publishing Corporation in October 2024. This edition features 165 pages in English and presents a selection of Lispector’s most cherished stories, including “The Smallest Woman in the World,” “Love,” “Family Ties,” and “The Egg and the Chicken.” The book captures Lispector’s unique ability to illuminate life’s small, revelatory moments, showcasing her literary genius in a compact format.
Readers will find a rich exploration of themes that resonate throughout Lispector’s work, reflecting her deep engagement with the intricacies of human experience. The stories in Covert Joy reveal the bliss that literature can provide, as expressed in the title story, where joy is portrayed as a profound and intimate connection. This collection not only highlights Lispector’s contributions to fiction and short stories but also situates her within the broader context of Hispanic and Latino literature, as well as world literature, particularly from Brazil.
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This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector’s best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as “The Smallest Woman in the World,””Love,” “Family Ties,” and “The Egg and the Chicken.” Lispector’s luminous regard for life’s small revelatory incidents is legendary, and here her genius is concentrated in a fizzing, portable volume. Covert Joy offers the particular bliss a book can bring that she expresses in the title story:
Joy would always be covert for me… Sometimes I’d sit in the hammock, swinging with the book open on my lap, not touching it, in the purest ecstasy.I was no longer a girl with a book: I was a woman with her lover
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