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Near to the Wild Heart (Penguin Modern Classics)

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For a woman who is used to having complete freedom, being forced to share it, to give it up, is a painful experience, and once she realises her loss of power, it’s only a matter of time before her thoughts, as always, turn into actions. The prose is fluent, hallucinogenic at times, alight with figurative images and sometimes resistant to linear logic and analysis: this is writing that has to be felt rather than merely understood and so has an appeal to somewhere more visceral than just the brain. Criticii văd în proza ei o ilustrare a modernismului și o pun în descendența lui James Joyce și a Virginiei Woolf, autori pe care Lispector încă nu-i citise. Si tratta di un misticismo esistenziale, un misticismo della Natura: non mi pare si possa parlare di fede in dio, questo dio o quell’altro. The book, particularly its revolutionary language, brought its young, unknown creator to great prominence in Brazilian letters and earned her the prestigious Graça Aranha Prize.

Given your enjoyment of novels featuring introspection, then I’d say it’s worth giving Lispector a try. As with most good novels that invent a set of parameters to define the use of language, to say nothing of the dazzling images that flood the reader's consciousness, Near to the Wild Heart, too, cannot be stripped down to its plot and content. Ultimately, I was left with an image of a life lived in intense fragments, each section disconnected from the next. Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and published around her twenty-third birthday. The Hogarth Press where I’m working, is in the heart of the literary world, with authors coming in all the time.Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. li definisce Alfredo Giuliani nella quarta e nel suo articolo su Repubblica intitolato Debutto selvaggio (del 27 settembre 1987). It’s interesting you’ve picked up on the prose as Lispector would make a striking comparison with Woolf. Like a breath of fresh, melancholic air, Clarice Lispector finally entered my world and brought along an exquisite gift of precious reflections made out of the lyrical strands of dazzling sentences.

Have you sometimes felt like you are an entire village but at other times have been lost like a dot?If the twinkling of the stars pains me, if this distant communication is possible, it is because something almost like a star quivers within me. Clarice Lispector’s sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name ‘Hurricane Clarice’. When Lispector began writing, in March 1942, she was still a law student at the Faculdade Nacional de Direito ( National Law School), and was also working as a journalist. Between the two pieces, looking at them (the one she had already slept and the one she had yet to sleep), isolated in the timeless and the spaceless, an empty gap.

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