
Near to the Wild Heart
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Rebecca Morris
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 23-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 rawness of each word
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Outstanding first effort by a genius
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AMAZING!
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I would highly recommend this. Very excited to see Lispector's work finally being done in audio format. The narrator did a wonderful job with the text.Enchanting!
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Masterpiece
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Such a wonderful book from Clarice Lispector. Rebecca Morris sound amazing. More books by this narrator please!I love this book and the audio is great
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Love it! So awesome to finally hear Lispector in audio form. the Narrator did a wonderful job as well. *****Spectacular
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- Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
It is hard to put your finger on, wrap your brain around, this novel. In someways it reminds me of (and stands with) the stream of conscious writers like Joyce and Woolf. But the novel itself FEELS like Djuna Barnes' classic Nightwood. It is mysterious, lyrical, fragmented, dreamy. At heart, it feels like a brilliant, introspective girl/woman (Lispector was 23 when this book was published) working out what it means to be human, but more specifically, a woman; independent of her parents, relatives, teachers, husband, lovers, other women, motherhood, and even God.
Using philosophy, geometry, poetry, nature and intuition she examines herself from a period to a line to a triangle to a circle, and then back again. She explores the shape of herself and what it means to be alive.
An amazing and important first novel
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Mental Onanism
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