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Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispectors third novelthe story of a girl and the city her gaze revealsis in English at lastSeven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispectors third novelthe story of a girl and the city her gaze revealsis in English at last. Lucrcia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitorssoldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateusare attracted to her tawdry notquitebeauty, which is of a piece with Sao Geraldo, the roughandready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucrcia is tamed by marriage, Sao Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives for the highest attainment it can conceivea viaductit takes on the progressively more metropolitan manners that Lucrcia, with her vulgar ambitions, desires too. Yet it is precisely through this womans superficialityher identification with the porcelain knickknacks in her mothers parlorthat Clarice Lispector creates a profound and enigmatic meditation on the mystery of the thing. Written in Europe shortly after Clarice Lispectors own marriage, The Besieged City is a proving ground for the intricate language and the radical ideas that characterize one of her centurys greatest writersand an ironic ode to the magnetism of the material.
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