# Besieged City

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- Authors: [Clarice Lispector](https://www.bookquiver.com/clarice-lispector), [Benjamin Moser](https://www.bookquiver.com/benjamin-moser)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2024-07-30

## Description

Rich with visions, miraculous horses, and linguistic ecstasy, The Besieged City stars Lucrecia. Clarice Lispector's heroine is a materialistic girl free of the burden of thought: " Behold, behold, all of her, terribly physical, one of the objects."“The object—the thing,” Lispector once remarked, “always fascinated me and in a certain sense destroyed me. In my book The Besieged City I speak indirectly about the mystery of the thing. The thing is a specialized and immobilized animal.”

## Editions

### Besieged City

- Publisher: New Directions Publishing
- ISBN: 978-08-1123-850-2
- Published: 2024-07-30
- Language: en_US