Near to the Wild Heart [Paperback]

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 OBrien, 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 Brazils 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?This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tellsthe story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through anunhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.