{"product_id":"an-apprenticeship-or-the-book-of-pleasures","title":"An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “to be worthy of life itself.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1968, \u003cem\u003eAn Apprenticeship\u003c\/em\u003e is Clarice Lispector’s attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece \u003cem\u003eThe Passion According to G. H.\u003c\/em\u003e Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers and critics, the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: “I humanized myself,” she said. “The book reflects that.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: \u003cspan class=\"product-details__metafield\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo. of Pages: \u003cspan class=\"product-details__metafield\"\u003e160\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: \u003cspan class=\"product-details__metafield\"\u003eNew Directions Publishing\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: \u003cspan class=\"product-details__metafield\"\u003e9780811232210\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-details__metafield\"\u003eabout Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-details__metafield\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called \"astounding\" (Rachel Kushner), \"a penetrating genius\" (Donna Seaman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ), and \"one of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers\" (Orhan Pamuk). Born in Belém, Brazil,Stefan Tobler is the publisher of And Other Stories and, whenever time permits, a translator from Portuguese and German. His translation of Arno Geiger's  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Old King in His Exile \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was shortlisted for both the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and Schlegel-Tieck Prize, and his other translations include the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize-shortlisted  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eÁgua Viva\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e  by Clarice Lispector and the Man Booker International Prize finalist  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Cup of Rage \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Raduan Nassar. Sheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow Should a Person Be?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which New York Magazine deemed one of the \"New Classics of the 21st century. She was named one of \"The New Vanguard\" by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e book critics, who, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers, chose \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMotherhood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as a top book of 2018. Her books have been translated into twenty-one languages.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAUDADE TORONTO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50115530653919,"sku":null,"price":24.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1251\/1761\/files\/FullSizeRender_ec834c65-25cb-4816-b5a4-8e735e5d5ce7.jpg?v=1781451719","url":"https:\/\/saudadetoronto.com\/products\/an-apprenticeship-or-the-book-of-pleasures","provider":"SAUDADE TORONTO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}