Near to the Wild Heart

Title: Near to the Wild Heart
Author: Lispector, Clarice
ISBN: 9780811220026
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2012
Binding: Book
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher

Fiction 1405613

Publisher Description:

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."