Open AccessClarice’s Secret. On The Foreign Legion (A legião estrangeira, 1964) by Clarice Lispector
Author(s) -
Nadezhda Radulova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sledva
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2682-9681
pISSN - 1311-9060
DOI - 10.33919/sledva.20.41.10
Subject(s) - mysticism , art , jungle , bulgarian , modernism (music) , art history , literature , philosophy , humanities , history , archaeology , linguistics
The 13 stories of the collection The Foreign Legion (A legião estrangeira, 1964), the first appearance of Clarice Lispector in Bulgarian, are a piece of hypnotic writing that is difficult to compare with any other writer’s language of that time. On the one hand, this prose has a memory of the European modernism with the experimental spirit of the Left Bank of the Seine, with elements of literary cubism and delicate traces of Judaic mysticism… On the other hand, the European refinement and suffistication are literally shaken by the local culture with its smell of jungle and its colorfully hysterical Latin American Catholicism.