![]() ![]() ![]() She had awoken full of daylight, invaded. This book is all about the intensities of unknown inner lives – how people truly think and feel, it is all unfiltered and raw, the curious power of a deeply strange interior life: What matters then: to live or to know you are living? It is intensely concerned with transitions from childhood to adulthood, from innocence to understanding, from ignorance to knowledge. I’m going to assume she’d been working on it for several years, and it is – despite the incredible maturity of the style – a coming of age novel. First, it was first published in 1943, so she was 23. ![]() I think that I don’t necessarily have all the right “tools” at my disposal for a truly thoughtful approach to this book but I want to think about it within a few different contexts. Not that this is necessarily a horrible thing, but I’m shocked to find how much trouble I had getting through this-Lispector’s first novel-compared to the other novels I’ve read (and very much enjoyed). In all truth, reading Near to the Wild Heart was a frustrating reading experience. Clarice Lispector – Near to the Wild Heart ![]()
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