# The Chandelier

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- Book: [The Chandelier](https://www.bookquiver.com/clarice-lispector/the-chandelier) ([The Chandelier.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/clarice-lispector/the-chandelier.md))
- Authors: [Clarice Lispector](https://www.bookquiver.com/clarice-lispector)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-950-1
- Published: 2019-11-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

As Virginia seeks freedom via creation, the drama of her isolated life is almost entirely internal: from childhood, she sculpts clay figurines with " the best clay one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold. She got a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world. How, how to explain the miracle ..." While on one level simply the story of a woman's life, The Chandelier 's real drama lies in Lispector's attempt " to find the nucleus made of a single instant". Radically original, T he Chandelier pushes Lispector's lifelong quest for that nucleus into deeper territories than any of her other extraordinary work.