Near to the Wildheart

Informationen zum Autor Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star . Klappentext Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart in 1943 when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Gra¿Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star . Zusammenfassung As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states, different inner lives and different truths, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown.

Product details

• Authors: Clarice Lispector, Lispector Clarice
• Assisted by: Alison Entrekin (Translation), Entrekin Alison (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.02.2014
• EAN: 9780141197340
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119734-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics Paperbacks; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Brasilianische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Ukrainische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, FICTION / World Literature / Brazil