{"id":4107,"date":"2020-05-21T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T23:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.claricelispector.ims.com.br\/livro\/a-cidade-sitiada\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T13:55:05","slug":"a-cidade-sitiada","status":"publish","type":"livro","link":"https:\/\/site.claricelispector.ims.com.br\/en\/book\/a-cidade-sitiada\/","title":{"rendered":"The Besieged City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The novel takes place in the 1920s and is set in the unattractive suburb of S\u00e3o Geraldo, where the young Lucr\u00e9cia Neves lives, remotely unaccepting of the monotony of an environment with no future. The conflict between city and countryside, which is present in other works by the author (<em>The Chandelier<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Apple in the Dark <\/em>and&nbsp;<em>An Apprenticeship or The Book of Delights<\/em>), is essential in this novel for the characterization of the protagonist, who is divided between the villa-refuge of her origins, with which she maintains remote affective ties, and dreams of the romanticized metropolis. The young woman\u2019s restlessness does not go beyond this, however, as she presents a discernible limitation in her ability to reflect on life. \u201cLucr\u00e9cia Neves might have wanted to express it, imitating with thought the wind that knocks on doors \u2013 but she was missing the name of things.\u201d Her way of apprehending the real is through the gaze, which does not manage to transform into language, into word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plot, narrated in the third person, moves linearly in twelve chapters of short sentences, following the protagonist\u2019s perambulations through city streets and through life to exhibit and confirm what things are in their appearance. The male figures, in flirtation and in marriage, are pieces in the game of trying out lifestyles. Lieutenant Felipe in his uniform and power is, above all, an outsider who disparages the suburb and thus offends her; Perseu, the prototype of beauty, is weak and \u201cempty\u201d like her; old Mateus, whom she marries, provides the experience of the big city, which doesn\u2019t satisfy her. Widowed, what remains is the promise of a new marriage that takes her away from her hometown and towards a farmstead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Lispector, the story of Lucr\u00e9cia expresses the vain struggle \u201cto reach reality\u201d through a \u201ca total view of things.\u201d \u201cOne of the most intense aspirations of the spirit is that of mastering outer reality through the spirit. Lucr\u00e9cia is unable to do that \u2013 so she \u2018adheres\u2019 to this reality, she assumes as her own life the broader life of the world.\u201d The urban development that arrives in a disorderly manner in peaceful S\u00e3o Geraldo, and over which the people have no control, contributes to this destitution. Lucr\u00e9cia does not live, she spies on life. 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