Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (translation)
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 & interior monologue consciously echo James Joyce as Lispector recalls first the childhood & then the adult years of the middle-class Joana, her unhappy marriage & its dissolution.
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Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in western Ukraine. As a result of the anti-Semitic violence they endured, the family fled to Brazil in 1922, & she grew up in Recife. Following the death of her mother when Clarice was 9, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her father & 2 sisters, & she went on to study law. With her husband, who worked for the foreign service, she lived in Italy, Switzerland, England, & the US, until they separated & she returned to Rio in 1959; she died there in 1977. Since her death, Clarice Lispector has earned universal recognition as Brazil’s greatest modern writer.
年:
1990
出版社:
New Directions Publishing
语言:
english
页:
192
ISBN 10:
0811211401
ISBN 13:
9780811211406
文件:
EPUB, 1.16 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1990