Near to the Wild Heart (Penguin Modern Classics)

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To become a subscriber to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly Magazine, please visit our subscriptions page. Yes, yes, there was the truth: they existed more than other people, they were the symbol of the thing in the thing itself. but I started thinking, even when I was 19: How can I help this person reach the prominence she deserves? It becomes an impossible task, because she remains in a constant state of self-evaluation and self-actualization.

Quella poca trama che emerge è più che altro da intuire, trasmessa al lettore per illuminazioni allucinatorie, confonde presente e passato, mescola realtà e immaginazione, incrocia l’amore con la rabbia, che forse è perfino odio.Just a goddess giving birth to a first child feeling vulnerable and inexperienced, and destined to make mistakes and lose control when the child grows up and claims an independent life.

Lispector viene sempre avvicinata a Joyce e Virginia Woolf: da Joyce arriva il titolo di questo suo primo romanzo, la frase presa dal Dedalus è messa in esergo. e. love) that's eating her from the inside, every stage in Joanna's life is a reflection painfully embedded in the memory of things past and future, gyrating their way out of the momentary present. All of me swims, floats, crosses what exists with my nerves, I am nothing but a desire, anger, vagueness, as impalpable as energy.Criticii văd în proza ei o ilustrare a modernismului și o pun în descendența lui James Joyce și a Virginiei Woolf, autori pe care Lispector încă nu-i citise. Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and published around her twenty-third birthday. I admired the quality of the writing (there is a free-spirited wildness to it), but couldn’t bring myself to love the book.

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. There was a hard, crystalline quality in her that attracted and repulsed him at the same time, he noticed. It instead recounts flashes from the life of Joana, between her present, as a young woman, and her early childhood. Now – only later, the tray of ice cubes again and there you are staring at it in fascination, watching the droplets of water already trickling. Discussions do not appear in the reading but leave them a feeling of being monologues because Clarice never goes the perception of the mind of the character in front of words and external means.

Perto do coração selvagem (1944; Near to the Wild Heart), published when she was 24 years old, won critical acclaim for its sensitive interpretation of adolescence.

Aproape de inima vijelioasă a lumii (titlul i-a fost propus de editor și este un citat din Potret al artistului la tinerețe de Joyce), există un narator (sfios și foarte puțin vorbăreț) care povestește, uneori, rar, despre Joana, despre tatăl ei și, în a doua parte a cărții, despre soțul ei, un anume Otávio, dar mai ales avem monologul interior al Joanei care ajunge să acopere nu numai discursul naratorului, ci și monologul interior al lui Otávio și orice alt discurs în general. Both the character description and the philosophical musing that you mention are also reasons that I think I will like this book. Il tempo, fatto di attimi che si susseguono, distillati, scanditi o anche dilatati in immagini, il segreto dell’eternità in quella successione. Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) was born in Ukraine to Jewish parents who emigrated to Brazil in 1922.Injured in an accident in 1966, she spent the last decade of her life in frequent pain, steadily writing and publishing novels and stories until her premature death in 1977. The last quote should give you a feel for the ‘stream’ style – ‘stream’ is not usually my favourite style, but it works very well here. There is a sense of freedom to her prose style so she might be of interest to you from a writing perspective? Excerpts and links may be used, provided that the material is credited and referenced to JacquiWine’s Journal with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.