The Apple In The Dark
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark of Brazilian modernist fiction, The Apple in the Dark chronicles the psychological and spiritual odyssey of Martim, a man who believes he has committed a murder and flees into the vast, indifferent Brazilian wilderness seeking a kind of self-annihilation and rebirth. Clarice Lispector constructs a dense, interior narrative that strips language itself down to its rawest elements, forcing both her protagonist and her reader to confront the terrifying freedom of existing outside the boundaries of society and identity. The novel unfolds on a remote farm where Martim encounters two women whose own suppressed desires and existential tensions mirror and complicate his fragile attempt at self-reinvention. Written in Lispector's characteristically hypnotic and philosophically charged prose, the work argues that true selfhood can only be approached through a radical dismantling of the self — a process as disorienting as it is illuminating. Widely regarded as one of the most ambitious works in twentieth-century Latin American literature, it stands as an essential testament to Lispector's singular genius for rendering the ineffable in language.
Author: Clarice Lispector
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark of Brazilian modernist fiction, The Apple in the Dark chronicles the psychological and spiritual odyssey of Martim, a man who believes he has committed a murder and flees into the vast, indifferent Brazilian wilderness seeking a kind of self-annihilation and rebirth. Clarice Lispector constructs a dense, interior narrative that strips language itself down to its rawest elements, forcing both her protagonist and her reader to confront the terrifying freedom of existing outside the boundaries of society and identity. The novel unfolds on a remote farm where Martim encounters two women whose own suppressed desires and existential tensions mirror and complicate his fragile attempt at self-reinvention. Written in Lispector's characteristically hypnotic and philosophically charged prose, the work argues that true selfhood can only be approached through a radical dismantling of the self — a process as disorienting as it is illuminating. Widely regarded as one of the most ambitious works in twentieth-century Latin American literature, it stands as an essential testament to Lispector's singular genius for rendering the ineffable in language.