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'. It tells the story of Joana, from her
wild, creative childhood, as the 'little egg' who writes poems for her
father, through her marriage to the faithless Otavio and on to her
decision to make her own way in the world. As Joana, endlessly mutable,
moves through different emotional states, different inner lives and
different truths, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely
intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are.
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer.
Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. References
to her literary work pervade the music and literature of Brazil and
Latin America.
She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the
aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to
Romania and eventually sailed to Brazil. In 1933, Clarice Lispector
encountered Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, which convinced her that she
was meant to write. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart
in 1943 when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded
the Graca Aranha Prize for the best first novel.
Many felt she
had given Brazillian literature a unique voice in the larger context of
Portuguese literature. After living variously in Italy, the UK,
Switzerland and the US, in 1959, Lispector with her children returned to
Brazil where she wrote her most influential novels including The
Passion According to G.H. She died in 1977, shortly after the
publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.
Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector
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