num_pages: 176
description: What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH with a book that looks suspiciously like a romance novel? In The Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures Clarice Lispector tries to discover how to bridge the gap between people or how to even begin to try. A woman struggles to emerge from solitude and sadness into love including sexual love: her guide on this journey is Ulisses who (yes) leads her patiently into the fullness of life. The Apprenticeship was a bestseller and as her biographer Benjamin Moser writes This accessible love story surprised many readers. When it came out an interviewer said: 'I thought The Book of Pleasures was much easier to read than any of your other books. Do you think theres any basis for that?' Clarice answered: 'There is. I humanized myself the book reflects that.'
language: English
title: An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
publisher: New Directions