The things I\'ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book.
This new, large, and beautifully translated volume, Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas presents a new aspect of the great writer--at once off the cuff and spot on..
Endlessly delightful, her insights make one sit up and think, whether about children or social ills or pets or society women or the business of writing or love.
Chatty, mystical, intimate, flirtatious, and revelatory, Clarice Lispector\'s pieces for the Saturday edition of Rio\'s leading paper, the Jornal do Brasil , from 1967 to 1973, take the forms of memories, essays, aphorisms, and serialized stories.
The crônica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers (or even soccer stars) to address a wide readership on any theme they like.
I know: it happens to me too.
There are various ways of knowing by not-knowing.
Or maybe they do even when they don\'t.
I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don\'t know.
They know a lot: they really do get around.
The things I\'ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book
