Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector (English) Paperback Book

Description: Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin, Benjamin Moser This new translation of Clarice Lispectors sensational first book tells the story of a middle class womans life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 girl 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." Author Biography 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, and Clarice Lispector grew up in Recife. Following the death of her mother when Clarice was nine, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her father and two sisters, and she went on to study law. With her husband, who worked for the foreign service, she lived in Italy, Switzerland, England, and the United States, until they separated and she returned to Rio in 1959; she died there in 1977. Since her death, Clarice Lispector has earned universal recognition as Brazils greatest modern writer. Alison Entrekin has translated a number of works by Brazilian and Portuguese authors into English, including City of God by Paulo Lins and Budapest by Chico Buarque. Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is also the editor of a new translation of Clarice Lispectors work, of which this is the sixth volume. A former books columnist at Harpers Magazine, Moser is now a columnist at The New York Times Book Review, and is currently at work on the authorized biography of Susan Sontag. He lives in the Netherlands. Review "Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself." -- The Times Literary Supplement "Lispector is one of the hidden geniuses of twentieth century literature, in the same league as Flann OBrien, Borges and Pessoa... utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing." -- Colm Toibin "A truly remarkable writer." -- Jonathan Franzen "We now finally have a translation worthy of Clarice Lispectors inimitable style. Go out and buy it." -- The Guardian "It is jarring and yet restorative to read a writer whose focus is so private, internal." -- Boston Globe "One of 20th-century Brazils most intriguing and mystifying writers." -- The L Magazine "Theres a feeling of encountering something completely new and classic at the same time." -- Time Out Chicago "I had a sort of missionary urge with her...but I started thinking, even when I was 19: How can I help this person reach the prominence she deserves?" -- Benjamin Moser - San Francisco Chronicle Review Text eoeHer images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself.e Review Quote "We now finally have a translation worthy of Clarice Lispectors inimitable style. Go out and buy it." Details ISBN0811220028 Author Benjamin Moser Short Title NEAR TO THE WILD HEART Pages 220 Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation Language English Translator Alison Entrekin ISBN-10 0811220028 ISBN-13 9780811220026 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2012 UK Release Date 2012-06-19 Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2012-06-19 NZ Release Date 2012-06-19 Replaces 9780811211406 Audience General Publication Date 2012-06-19 US Release Date 2012-06-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:44597988;

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