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.”
Author: Clarice Lispector
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/13/2012
Series: Ndp; 1225
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780811220026
Language: English
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