{"id":291216,"date":"2012-07-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/07\/13\/latest-review-near-to-the-wild-heart-by-clarice-lispector\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:49","slug":"latest-review-near-to-the-wild-heart-by-clarice-lispector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/07\/13\/latest-review-near-to-the-wild-heart-by-clarice-lispector\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: &#34;Near to the Wild Heart&#34; by Clarice Lispector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=4152\">latest addition<\/a> to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?s=reviews\">Reviews Section<\/a> is a piece by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?s=tag&amp;t=quantum-sarah\">Quantum Sarah<\/a> on Clarice Lispector&#8217;s <em>Near to the Wild Heart<\/em>, which is translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin and is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/ndbooks.com\/book\/near-to-the-wild-heart1\">New Directions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is part of her review:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life.\u201d This is the epigraph, borrowed from Joyce\u2019s <i>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/i>, that captures the modernist spirit so essential to Clarice Lispector\u2019s revolutionary novel, <i>Near to the Wild Heart<\/i>. As her fierce and precocious protagonist struggles through adolescence and young adulthood, Lispector offers a wealth of luminous meditations on human nature, consciousness, individuality, and God. In this new translation by Alison Entrekin (New Directions, 2012), the intensity and brilliance of Lispector\u2019s prose thrills to life. Surprising, powerful, and revelatory, <i>Near to the Wild Heart<\/i> recounts with unforgettable candor the life of an audacious young woman in modern society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lispector\u2019s breakthrough novel rose to instant and lasting fame in Brazil upon publication in 1943, and it\u2019s no wonder: the ideas presented within are mind-blowing. Take, for instance, Joana\u2019s description of what it feels like to be in a relationship:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=4152\">here<\/a> to read the entire review.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/4-kjaerstad#discoverer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/320.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Quantum Sarah on Clarice Lispector&#8217;s Near to the Wild Heart, which is translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin and is available from New Directions. Here is part of her review: \u201cHe was alone. 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