I don’t want this house. I want a justice that wo…
Covert Joy: Selected Stories
by
Clarice Lispector
Nov. 7, 2025 - Nov. 14, 2025
(fiction)
Lispector, C. (2025). Covert Joy: Selected Stories. New Directions.
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because, I too, know what thirst is
p.95
my job is to live out my pleasures and my pains
And thus I don’t understand the egg. I only under…
p.79
the pettiness of a private life of precautions
Pale, kicked out of a Church, she looked at the s…
p.47
that life is short
But no one could have guessed what she was thinki…
p.31
a person must have some consistency
So, no. What she ought to do was wrap them up and…
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A Gram of Radium
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Love
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A Chicken
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Happy Birthday
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Family Ties
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Mystery in São Cristóvão
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The Buffalo
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Monkeys
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The Egg and the Chicken
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Temptation
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Journey to Petrópolis
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The Fifth Story
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The Foreign Legion
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Mineirinho
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Covert Joy
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Remnants of Carnival
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The Waters of the World
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He Drank Me Up
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That’s Where I’m Going
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