An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

By Clarice Lispector

Pages

150

Rating

4.28

Year

1969

RomanceFictionClassicsLiteratureNovelsLiterary Fiction

Description

'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she learned'

Lóri yearns for love yet is scared of herself and of connecting with another human. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, she is forced to confront her fears. As both of them will learn, to be worthy of another person they must first be fully themselves. An Apprenticeship is about the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, and what it means to love and be loved.

Translated by Stefan Tobler. Edited by Benjamin Moser with an Afterword by Sheila Heti.

Endorsements

'One of the very great writers of the last century' — Guardian

'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' — Colm Tóibín

'I humanized myself' — Clarice Lispector

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector - Bookist