About this title: "The Foreign Legion" is a collection in two parts. The first part consists of 13 stories: some mordantly funny, some sad beyond words. The second part offers a selection of Lispector's newspaper "chronicles," which are, in fact, brilliant essays on Brazilian art and society, evocations of her world, conversations with her children, and aphorisms--a rich miscellany.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780856356278ISBN:0856356271
Description: Good. The dust cover is creased. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Edition: Reissue
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NEW DIRECTIONS
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780811211895ISBN:0811211894
Description: New. The Foreign Legion opens with thirteen stories. Delightful, vivid, sometimes mordantly funny, sometimes sad beyond words. Together the stories and chronicles create a showcase of Lispector's talents to amuse and disturb. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Carcanet Press, Manchester, UK
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780856356278ISBN:0856356271
Description: Very Good+ in Near Fine jacket. First edition, hardcover, tiny bumps to spine ends, otherwise a Near Fine copy in like dustjacket with publisher's price sticker to base of front panel. read more
"Brilliant collection of short stories by one of my favorite Brazilian writers. "The Egg and The Chicken", which is included in this book, is Lispector at her best. I love the beginning of the story:
"In the morning I see the egg on the kitchen table. I take in the egg at a single glance. I immediately perceive that I cannot be seeing an egg. To see an egg never remains in the present. No sooner do I see an egg that I have seen an egg for the last three thousand years. The very instant an egg is seen, it is the memory of an egg - the only person to see the egg is someone who has already seen it. - Upon seeing the egg, it is already too late: an egg seen is an egg lost. - To see the egg is the promise of being able to see the egg one day. - A brief glance which cannot be divided; if there is any thought; there is no thought; there is the egg. Looking is the necessary instrument which, once used, I shall put aside. I shall remain with the egg. - The egg has no itself. Individually, it does not exist.""
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