Near to the Wild Heart (Penguin Modern Classics)

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I felt I needed to re-read it immediately to understand it sufficiently, but decided I wasn’t intrigued enough to devote the necessary time and effort. Our Members support all that we do and enjoy exclusive events, talks, tours and studio visits – find out how you can join! I have found that Lispector’s novels, although brief, take quite a bit of time and concentration to understand and appreciate. It’s a book that demands concentration, possibly one to reread at some point as I’m sure I missed so much on my first reading.

Reviews of the book were really positive and reviews insisted she was influenced by Virginia Woolf but Lispector had never read Woolf and didn’t read her for another year of so afterwards out of curiosity over why everyone said she wrote like Woolf.In the best stories, something deeply strange is fully visualized by Lispector, as though it had come in a waking dream and it needed to be given urgent substance. Well, I would be very curious to hear your thoughts on this book (and Lispector in general) if you decide to go for it.

Il rumore della pioggia allontana la paura del buio, i rumori del mondo si fanno parole e le parole sono suono. Thoughts ran down these polished ropes until they quivered there, in her ankles, where the flesh was as soft as a chicken's. Clarice Lispector's first novel, Near to the Wild Heart, was published in 1944, when its author was only nineteen years old.Il fibrillante, imprevedibile modernismo dell'autrice rifugge da un impiego sistematico del flusso di coscienza. For almost a year after publication, articles about the book appeared continuously in every major city in Brazil.