Cerca del corazón salvaje / Near to the Wild Heart

Llega a bolsillo la primera novela de Clarice Lispector, publicada cuando apenas tenía veintitrés años.

La protagonista, Joana, es una niña cuyo aburrimiento activa su imaginación. Y así empieza una narración en la que deambulan sus inquietudes e ilusiones desde la infancia hasta la madurez.

Cerca del corazón salvaje es el intento de construir la biografía de Joana desde la infancia hasta la madurez, buscando la verdad interior, estudiando la complejidad de las relaciones humanas, intentando olvidar la muerte, la muerte del padre, que Joana no aceptará jamás.

ENGLISH 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.

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.”