This story has stayed with me since the first time I read it. A lasting impression. An image that I can see very clearly. It is the story of an ordinary life, an expected life, that fractures upon a chance encounter – while riding a bus, a woman sees a blind man, and her ability to ‘see’ things changes. What do you do once you know differently?
First published in Laços de Família, 1960. Translated into English in Family Ties, Avon, 1972, and The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector, New Directions, 2009. Available to read online here.
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