9 Best classics books like Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero

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Near to the Wild Heart

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and …

"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"What does it feel like to have a girl?"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

If you liked the classics plot in Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Waves

By: Virginia Woolf

4.15

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
"Death is woven in with the violets,"

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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2. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

Cover of White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

3. White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

Cover of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Reginald Snell

4. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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5. O Sol e o Peixe: Prosas Poéticas

By: Virginia Woolf , Tomaz Tadeu

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

"Aquarios recortados na uniforme escuridao encerram regioes de imortalidade, mundos de luz solar co… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's O Sol e o Peixe: Prosas Poéticas book and Clarice Lispector's Near to the Wild Heart

  • womens
  • classics
Cover of The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick O'Brian

6. The Woman Destroyed

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Format: None pages,

Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more

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  • womens
  • classics
  • fiction

7. A Obscena Senhora D

By: Hilda Hilst , Alcir Pécora

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

O livro.Escrito na particularissima prosa de Hilda Hilst, onde todos generos narrativos se fundem e… read more

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8. Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

By: Benjamin Moser

3.17

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispecto… read more

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9. A Cup of Rage

By: Raduan Nassar , Stefan Tobler

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love' A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man… read more

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10. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
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  • novels
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

11. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By: Elizabeth Smart

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptis an enigma… read more

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Cover of Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero

12. Near to the Wild Heart

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more

Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's Near to the Wild Heart book and Clarice Lispector's Near to the Wild Heart

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • brazil
  • latin american
  • portuguese literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • womens
  • novels
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

13. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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14. The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more

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15. I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • novels
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

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16. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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17. Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol

By: Mónica Ojeda

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

LA NUEVA NOVELA DE LA AUTORA FINALISTA AL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD por Mandíbula Seleccionada por la … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • fiction
  • womens
  • novels
Cover of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

18. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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  • fiction
  • novels
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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19. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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20. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

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21. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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13 Top fiction books like Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero

Transform Your Habits

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Lover

Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Transform Your Habits

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Woman Destroyed

Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

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16 Top fiction books like The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick O'Brian

Transform Your Habits

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Idiot

Elif Batuman

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Sex and Rage

Eve Babitz

3.87

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