Near To The Wild Heart Clarice Lispector Alison Entrekin Translation by Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin (translation), Benjamin Moser (editor) 9780811220712, 0811220710 instant download after payment.

This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage & its dissolution to transcendence. 

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 & 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 & interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage & its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: “I shall arise as strong & comely as a young colt.”

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Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the 20th century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), & “one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk).

Alison Entrekin has translated a number of works by Brazilian & Portuguese authors, including City of God by Paulo Lins & Budapest by Chico Buarque.

Benjamin Moser is the editor & a translator of Lispector's works into English for New Directions.