![]() ![]() Near to the Wild Heart is a fascinating story written in two parts. ![]() However, it’s clear from the offset that theirs is a relationship always destined to explode. Eventually, she deigns to marry the handsome Otávio, even though he’s not really a match for her. She’s beautiful but cold, brilliant but unapproachable, a woman who stands out for good reasons and for bad. Joana, the main protagonist of the novel, is a woman trying to work out what she wants from life. It’s a swirling, Woolfian tale of a young woman who stands out for her inability to conform to comfortable bourgeois norms – hers is certainly a mind less ordinary. Near to the Wild Heart(translated by Alison Entrekin, published by New Directions) was Clarice Lispector’s debut novel back in 1943, when she was just twenty-three years old. It was a pleasant surprise, so (of course) I put a hold on it, and it arrived in a fairly short time – which is why I have the pleasure of introducing today, for the first time on the blog, the woman the Brazilian press named Hurricane Clarice. ![]() While browsing the library databases recently, I stumbled across a book by a writer I’ve been meaning to try for a while now. ![]()
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