Up until the point she (GH) enters the room, we are told she had lived her life with a "light, general pleasure". The Passion According to GH (1964) takes it further: there's no story, only a well-to-do woman encountering a cockroach in the room of her absent maid. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life." The title Near to the Wild Heart is a quote from Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: "He was alone. Her first, award-winning novel was published in 1943, when she was 23. Yet, as a character in her first novel says: “All I know I never learnt but had always known.” This bleak biography would seem to have an influence on her work. She said she carried the guilt of her mother’s death with her for the rest of her life.Ĭlarice was left with the impression of the world as a place oblivious to the concerns of human beings. Clarice had to live with the possibility that her mother conceived her as a cure for the disease. There, when Clarice was nine, her mother died, succumbing to syphilis contracted when she was raped by Russian soldiers. Her Jewish family had to flee the horrors of the pograms which followed the first World War. If she has a real affinity, it is with Beckett, in their shared project of naming the unnameable. Others place her in the company of Joyce and Kafka. Colm Tóibín calls her “one of the hidden geniuses of 20th-century literature”. Clarice Lispector is regarded as one of the great writers of the 20th century.
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