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The New York Times
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The first word of Clarice Lispector’s newly translated 1949 novel, “An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures,” is not a word at all, but a mark: a comma.
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Illustration for Book Review section.
The first word of Clarice Lispector’s newly translated 1949 novel, “An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures,” is not a word at all, but a mark: a comma.