The Foreign Legion

Clarice Lispector · 1964 CE · Short Story · Latin American · Contemporary

A woman asked for her recipe against cockroaches tells the business of the plaster and sugar five times over, each retelling a different confession. Beside it sit an old woman shunted from house to house until nobody will keep her, and a small girl who comes to a neighbour's door to correct her about everything. Published in the same year as The Passion According to G.H., it pairs thirteen stories with a run of her newspaper work.

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