{"id":4120,"date":"2020-05-21T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T23:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.claricelispector.ims.com.br\/livro\/o-lustre\/"},"modified":"2021-06-17T11:08:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:08:53","slug":"o-lustre","status":"publish","type":"livro","link":"https:\/\/site.claricelispector.ims.com.br\/en\/book\/o-lustre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chandelier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Chandelier <\/em>(1946), the second novel by Clarice Lispector, was written when the author was living in Europe and completed in Naples, at the end of World War II. One recognizes characteristics in it that were present in Near to the Wild Heart<\/em>: a plot without a defined structure and a stream of consciousness that favors sensations and the perception of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book tells the story of Virginia, from her childhood on Quieta Farm to her solitary life in the city. The title refers to the decorative element from her father\u2019s house: \u201cThere was the chandelier. The great spider would glow. She would look at it immobile, uneasy, seeming to foresee a terrible life. That icy existence. Once! once in a flash\u200a\u2014\u200athe chandelier shed chrysanthemums and joy. Another time\u200a\u2014\u200awhile she was running through the parlor\u200a\u2014\u200ait was a chaste seed.\u201d Associated with images of spiders and chrysanthemums (used in funeral rituals), insects and flowers, the chandelier introduces a tragic feminine poetics: it predicts the \u201cterrible life\u201d  of characters consigned to isolation, conflict, and lack of affection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the novel, death is a presence for the protagonist: her indifference to what life may offer from Eros; the supposed drowning of a man, which haunts her even as an adult; the recollection of when, as a child, she follows her grandmother\u2019s intermittent state between life and death; and the Shadow Society, created by her brother Daniel to torture her. The critic Olga de S\u00e1 (Cadernos de Literatura Brasileira <\/em>[Brazilian Literature Notebooks], Moreira Salles Institute) identifies \u201ca metaphysics of death in Clarice\u2019s fiction;\u201d the \u201cparadigm is perhaps The Chandelier\u2019s <\/em>Virginia, who dies at the end of the narrative, but whose death is signaled from the beginning.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protagonist suffers from physical and existential strabismus. Her limited understanding of the world approaches that of Lucr\u00e9cia, from The Besieged City<\/em>. Since childhood, Virginia faints easily, feeling pleasure with the \u201csensation of nascent flight,\u201d and creates negative relationships with people. In this sense, too, the image of the chandelier evokes a lack, that which does not shine, like Virginia\u2019s opaque existence: \u201cThe featherless chandelier. Like a great and quavering cup of water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writer L\u00facio Cardoso, a close friend of Clarice\u2019s, considered the book\u2019s title beneath the author\u2019s singularity. She responded: \u201cPrecisely due to what you didn\u2019t like, due to its poverty, is why I like it. I\u2019ve never really managed to convince you that I\u2019m poor. (…) Unfortunately, the poorer I am, the more adornments I wear. As soon as I manage a form as poor as I am on the inside, instead of a letter, you\u2019ll receive a little box full of Clarice\u2019s ashes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2941,"template":"","categories":[575],"class_list":["post-4120","livro","type-livro","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novels"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Chandelier - Clarice Lispector<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/site.claricelispector.ims.com.br\/livro\/o-lustre\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Chandelier - Clarice Lispector\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Segundo romance de Clarice Lispector, foi escrito quando a autora vivia na Europa, tendo sido finalizado em N\u00e1poles, ao t\u00e9rmino da II Guerra Mundial.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/site.claricelispector.ims.com.br\/livro\/o-lustre\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Clarice Lispector\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-06-17T14:08:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/site.claricelispector.ims.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Capa_O_Lustre.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"753\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1111\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.claricelispector.ims.com.br\/livro\/o-lustre\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/site.claricelispector.ims.com.br\/livro\/o-lustre\/\",\"name\":\"The Chandelier - 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