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epub | 8.09 MB | English| Isbn:9780811220712 | Author: Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin (Translator), Benjamin Moser (Preface by) | Year: 2012
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Quote:This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.Category:Fiction, Literature, Fiction Subjects, World Fiction, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction, Latin American Fiction, Avant-Garde/Experimental Fiction, Brazilian Fiction, Women's Experience - Latin American Fiction
Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice": a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: "He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life."
The book was an unprecedented sensation - the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: "I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt."