The Smallest Woman in the World (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Clarice Lispector
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Central Congo and a large metropolis
- Principal Characters: Little Flower, Marcel Pretre
- Genres: Short fiction, Bildungsroman, Existential literature
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Africa or Africans, Alienation, Jungles or rain forests, Exploration or explorers
- Locales: Congo
The Story
The action plot of the story is quite simple. An explorer, Marcel Pretre, while on an excursion into equatorial Africa, comes across a tribe of extraordinarily small pygmies living in the forest. These pygmies tell him of an even smaller race of pygmies living deeper within the jungle. He travels even deeper into the heart of the luxuriant tropical forest and there discovers the smallest race of pygmies in the world. Among these minute creatures, he discovers “the smallest of the smallest pygmies in the world,” a tiny woman no more than forty-five centimeters...
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