“One might have thought that so stern a 'new novelist' would scorn the chatty style required. Far from it: Lispector discovered her own extraordinary idiom–intimate, revelatory, mystificatory. This flirtation with her readers was a triumphant metamorphosis for the avant-garde author.”
A revelation for readers of Clarice Lispector's novels and stories, Selected Crônicas presents an entirely new side of Brazil's greatest twentieth-century writer.