1. Clarice Lispector

3. Joaquim Machado de Assis Jorge Amado Mario de Andrade

4. Celan Lispector

5. L’écriture feminine

6. Lyrical

7. Abstract

8. Água Viva Uisge beatha

9. Pablo Picasso

10. suddenly becoming irritated, she shut up abruptly like a fan. She lay down and fanned herself abruptly with a newspaper....

11. She beheld the picture of her bright smile....

12. Jean Cocteau: The Blood of a PoetThe Blood of a Poet Flann O’Brien: The Dalkey Archive Carlos Fuentes: Terra NostraTerra Nostra

13. It seemed to her that the trolley cars were about to cross through the room as they caused her reflected image to tremble.

14. Oh what a succulent room! Here she was, fanning herself in Brazil. The sun, trapped in the blinds, shimmered on the wall like the strings of a guitar.

15. Synaesthesia

16. It was at this moment that she became deaf: one of her senses was missing.... One of two things: either she was deaf or hearing all too well.

17. I lost something that was essential to me, and that no longer is. I no longer need it, as if I’d lost a third leg that up till then made it impossible for me to walk but that turned me into a stable tripod. The Passion According to G.H.

18. And the green wine from her native Portugal slowly being drained from her glass.