From The Besieged City, a novel that will be published this month by New Directions. Lispector’s novel The Chandelier was published last year by New Directions. Edited by Benjamin Moser and translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz.
On one of his final business trips, instead of leaving his wife on Market Street, Mateus rented the little house on the island for her, hoping the sea would give her some color.
At the first excuse, because of a missing cheese, Lucrécia Neves Correia had fought with the maid and dismissed her. And finally—alone with her former careful way of…