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Near to the Wild Heart
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.
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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The Passion According to G. H.
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Lispector’s most shocking novel. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of... Buy or find out more→
Near to the Wild Heart
$23.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Clarice Lispector's first novel, Near to the Wild Heart (Perto do coracao selvagem), was published in 1944, when ts author was only nineteen years old. Buy or find out more→
Agua Viva
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Lispector at her most philosophically radical. Buy or find out more→
The Hour of the Star
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New translation; previous translation published in 1992. Buy or find out more→