About this title: Clarice Lispector's first novel, Near to the Wild Heart, was published in 1944, when its author was only nineteen years old. An immediate success, it became an acknowledged watershed in Brazilian literature, catapulting it into the literary arena of European modernism. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue consciously echo James Joyce as Lispector recalls first the childhood and then the adult years of the middle-class Joana, her unhappy marriage and its dissolution.
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Description: New. First published in 1944 when the author was only nineteen years old, Clarice Lispector's first novel was an immediate success. Its narrative epiphanies and interior monologue consciously echo James Joyce as Lispector recalls first the childhood and. read more
"Deeply esoteric...and very much in parallel with Joyce's "... Portrait of the Artist..." - not only apparent in its title, but also the writing and especially the epiphany ending - it is a tough idiosyncratic reading with perplexing characters, each carrying their own burden of conscience or their lack of it, mercilessly observed and felt by Lispector."
"This star system isn't really the greatest way to show my excitement about books. If I'm putting them on this list, it's because I really dug them. Lispector is one of my favorites, this and Stream of Life especially, but also her stories in Soulstorm"
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