Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector
Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector
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Description
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 and its dissolution to transcendence.
"Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself."
"Lispector is one of the hidden geniuses of twentieth century literature, in the same league as Flann O’Brien, Borges and Pessoa… utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing."
"A truly remarkable writer."
"We now finally have a translation worthy of Clarice Lispector's inimitable style. Go out and buy it."
"It is jarring and yet restorative to read a writer whose focus is so private, internal."
"One of 20th-century Brazil’s most intriguing and mystifying writers."
"There's a feeling of encountering something completely new and classic at the same time."
"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?"
"You could breeze through it, you could let it marinate, or you could reread it twice in one sitting."
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and “one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk). 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. General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector’s complete works at New Directions, BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector, and Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, will be published in October.
"Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself."
"Lispector is one of the hidden geniuses of twentieth century literature, in the same league as Flann O’Brien, Borges and Pessoa… utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing."
"A truly remarkable writer."
"We now finally have a translation worthy of Clarice Lispector's inimitable style. Go out and buy it."
"It is jarring and yet restorative to read a writer whose focus is so private, internal."
"One of 20th-century Brazil’s most intriguing and mystifying writers."
"There's a feeling of encountering something completely new and classic at the same time."
"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?"
"You could breeze through it, you could let it marinate, or you could reread it twice in one sitting."
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and “one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk). 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. General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector’s complete works at New Directions, BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector, and Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, will be published in October.