Near to the Wild Heart (Penguin Modern Classics)

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The book, particularly its revolutionary language, brought its young, unknown creator to great prominence in Brazilian letters and earned her the prestigious Graça Aranha Prize. One day at school young Joana, the female protagonist in Near to the Wild Heart, asks her teacher a philosophical question that shows she is more thoughtful than most other children: “What do you get when you become happy?

Joana bambina accanto al padre, momento felice cui tenderà a tornare per tutta la vita, inseguendo, già adolescente e poi donna, una libertà che le impedisce di legarsi e di amare fino in fondo. The focus of Near to the Wild Heart is Joana, a young woman who finds herself in a loveless marriage with her husband, Otávio. Din adîncuri Te strig [Dumnezeule] şi nimic nu îmi răspunde nimic şi deznădejdea mea e uscată ca nisipul deşertului şi uluirea mea mă sufocă, mă umileşte, Dumnezeule, această mîndrie de a trăi îmi pune căluş, eu nu sînt nimic, din adîncuri Te strig din adîncuri Te strig din adîncuri Te strig din adîncuri Te strig.Tannery Arts is a small, independent charity concerned with supporting the professional development of emerging and established artists through the provision of affordable studios, promoting their practice through opportunities to exhibit work, develop projects, generate partnerships with local authorities, private property owners and social housing organisations as well as engage in learning activities.

I thought not even the freedom to be unhappy is preserved because you are dragging another person around with you. He steered it to the book-publishing wing of their employer, A Noite, where it appeared with a bright pink cover, typical for books by women, in December 1943. Leaning her forehead against the cold and shiny windowpane she gazed at the neighbor’s yard, at the big world of the hens-that-didn’t-know-they-were-going-to-die. For a woman who is used to having complete freedom, being forced to share it, to give it up, is a painful experience, and once she realises her loss of power, it’s only a matter of time before her thoughts, as always, turn into actions. I’m going to assume she’d been working on it for several years, and it is – despite the incredible maturity of the style – a coming of age novel.As we become enlightened, we want to go back and read it from a point of knowing, but I guess that is not the same reading process, perhaps half the fun is in the gradual awakening. When she is a little girl she is raised by her widowed father and from a young age Joana displays a unique curiosity about life. From an early stage in the narrative, it is clear that Joana is isolated in her marriage to Otávio (perhaps even isolated from life in general).