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.AFTERWORDBelieve me, the thing I like most of all in the world.is what I feel deep inside me, opening out as it were.I could almost tell you what it is, yet I cannot.Near to the Wild Heart [The original title in Portuguese is Perto do coração selvagem.First published in Rio de Janeiro, A Noite, 1944.Subsequent editions published by Editora Nova Fronteira.] was published in Brazil in 1944.It was Clarice Inspector's first novel and she was nineteen years of age.Throughout her childhood and adolescence, she had amused herself writing stories and short plays.For one reason or another, these were never published.She worked on the manuscript of Near to the Wild Heart for several years, a task she combined with her career as a journalist for a prestigious Rio newspaper, A Noite.Lispector was one of the first women to be employed there as a journalist.She found the work congenial and became friendly with other talented young writers.The most significant friendship of all was that with Lucio Cardoso, a writer of considerable experience who read and criticized draft chapters of her novel in manuscript form.Cardoso also suggested the lines from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a suitable title.The reviews commented on the book's striking innovations and welcomed its publication as 'the most serious attempt in Brazil to date to write a truly introspective novel'.But no critic could possibly have foreseen the influence Lispector would exert on feminist literature at home and abroad in years to come.Near to the Wild Heart focuses on psychological and philosophical problems in its portrayal of Joana, a young woman in search of an authentic existence.Joana's confidences echo those of Lispector herself.For here is a writer who claimed to be 'affected by everything', who saw and heard too much, who was constantly struggling against the tide of her own self.The traumas experienced by Joana foreshadow most of the preoccupations voiced by woman writers everywhere from the 1960s onwards.Near to the Wild Heart is divided into two parts.The nine chapters in Part One operate on two different but interrelated planes, the one dealing with the protagonist's childhood and adolescence: the early years with her father, orphanhood, the male teacher whom Joana secretly adores, the aunt who offers her a home without love or understanding, the emotional and physical turmoil of puberty as she comes to discover her own body and its demands.Interspersed with these fragments of her past are glimpses of Joana as a conventional suburban wife with unconventional thoughts:How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her?.And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?.A mysterious 'female voice' engages Joana in earnest dialogues about existence and constraints.A second plane focuses on the adult Joana who becomes increasingly aware of who and what she is.A triangular relationship involving Joana, her unfaithful husband Otávio, and Lídia, Otávio's ex-fiancee who is now expecting his child, exacerbates obsessive self-questioning about social and sexual roles.Joana sees her marriage in retrospect as an unforgivable betrayal of self.Bravely confronting her humiliating situation, she makes a bid for freedom, whatever the cost.Part Two of the novel sees Joana emerge as a prototype for all the reflective women who appear in subsequent stories and novels.Trapped in a servile and meaningless existence, she rebels in frustration.The mockery of her relationship with Otávio precipitates a crisis which makes their separation inevitable.My God! — never to be yourself, never, never.And to be a married woman, in other words, someone with their destiny traced out.Even boredom with life has a certain beauty.when you suffer it alone in quiet despair.It is significant that Clarice Lispector married a fellow law student whilst in the midst of writing this first novel.Early experience of marriage undoubtedly sharpened her perceptions about the considerable problems of readjustment [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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