
Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice" a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: "He was alone, unheeded,...
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An immediate success, it became an acknowledged watershed in Brazilian literature, catapulting it into the literary arena of European modernism.

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