An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (English Translated Edition)

'He'd wait for her, she knew that now.

Until she learned'.

Lóri yearns for love yet is scared of herself, and of connecting with another human.
When she meets Ulisses, a Professor of Philosophy, she is forced to confront her fears.

As both of them will learn, to be worthy of another person, they must first be fully open with themselves.

The book of which Clarice Lispector said, 'I humanized myself', An Apprenticeship is about the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, & what it means to love and to be loved.

Translated by Stefan Tobler & Edited by Benjamin Moser, with a new afterword by Sheila Heti.