NEAR TO THE WILD HEART
Author(s): LISPECTOR CLARICE
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."
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- : New Directions Publishing Corporation
- : New Directions Publishing Corporation
- : 0.22
- : 01 May 2012
- : .6 Inches X 5.2 Inches X 8 Inches
- : books
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- : LISPECTOR CLARICE
- : BC
- : 1206
- : English
- : 869.3/42
- : 220
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