The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector Laurie Anderson Killian elevates artists and friends

Killian elevates artists and friends to legendary status within his personal pantheon

treating personal truth as unavailable – something that must be made up and convincing

with an introduction by John Miller

the rough-and-ready township she inhabits

Faced with moving back to the home town she fought to escape

The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector Laurie Anderson Killian elevates artists and friendsRich with visions, miraculous horses, and linguistic ecstasy, The Besieged City stars Lucrcia. Clarice Lispectors heroine is a materialistic girl free of the burden of thought: Behold, behold, all of her, terribly physical, one of the objects. The objectthe thing, Lispector once remarked, always fascinated me and in a certain sense destroyed me. In my book The Besieged City I speak indirectly about the mystery of the thing. The thing is a specialized