The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector Laurie Anderson Strayer into English for the

Strayer into English for the first time

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

his years as a teenage throwaway and sex worker

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

Completed in 1999 during his time with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit

The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector Laurie Anderson Strayer into English for theRich 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