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===''The Apple in the Dark''=== ''A Maçã no escuro'' (''The Apple in the Dark''), which Lispector had begun in [[Torquay]], had been completed in 1956 but was repeatedly rejected by publishers, to Lispector's despair. Her longest novel and perhaps her most complex, it was finally published in 1961 by the same house that had published ''Family Ties'', the {{interlanguage link|Livraria Francisco Alves|pt}} in [[São Paulo]]. Driven by interior dialogue rather than by plot, its purported subject is a man called Martim, who believes he has killed his wife and flees deep into the Brazilian interior, where he finds work as a farm laborer. The real concerns of the highly allegorical novel are language and creation. In 1962, the work was awarded the Carmen Dolores Barbosa Prize for the best novel of the previous year. Around this time she began a relationship with the poet [[Paulo Mendes Campos]], an old friend. Mendes Campos was married and the relationship did not endure.<ref>Her marriage with the diplomat Maury Gurgel Valente seems to have been a marriage of convenience. Gurgel was more interested than she was. After the end of her marriage to Gurgel, Lispector fell in love with poet Paulo Mendes Campos ("Byron, at 23"). "For a brief time, Clarice and Paulinho lived a great passion. (...) They were an odd couple: Clarice, tall, blond and glamorous; and Paulinho (...) short, dark and, despite his charm, physically unattractive." In terms of neurosis, the two were made for each other," said Ivan Lessa. In Bula Revista (January 13, 2010) by Euler França Belém</ref>
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