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The Foreign Legion

by Clarice Lispector · 1964

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The Foreign Legion is a collection in two parts, gathering both stories and chronicles, and it offers wonderful evidence of Clarice Lispector's unique sensibility and range as an exponent of experimental prose. It opens with thirteen stories and the second part of the book presents newspaper cronicas, which Lispector said she retrieved from a bottom drawer.

Genre
literary fiction
Setting
1960sLatin America
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 220 pages
Form
short storiesessays

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