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Near to the wild heart / Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin ; introduction by Benjamin Moser ; edited by Benjamin Moser.

by Lispector, Clarice.

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New Directions, 2012.

9780811220026 (trade pbk.)

Perto do coração selvagem. English.

xii, 194 p. ; 21 cm.

Translated from the Portuguese.

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 woman 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.”

Portuguese fiction -- Translations into English.

Literary fiction.

Classic fiction.

Entrekin, Alison.

Moser, Benjamin.

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