Água Viva

By Clarice Lispector | Translated by Stefan Tobler | Preface by Benjamin Moser | New Directions (2012)

A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água 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, Água Viva stands out as a particular triumph.