Near to the Wild Heart opens with a scene of the child Joana playing in the garden, making up poems for her father. Joana's wildness and barely suppressed violence, along with her linguistic creativity, are her most notable features. She is frequently compared to animals: over the course of the book Lispector compares her to a bird, a snake, a wildcat, a horse, and a dog. She commits transgressive acts—as a child she throws a book at an old man's head, for example, and as a married woman she leaves her husband, Otávio, and greets the news of his adultery—he has made another woman, his
A Woman Hitting a Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag A Woman Hitting a Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag A Woman Hitting a Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag (, lit. "The woman with the handbag") is a photograph taken in Växjö, Sweden on 13 April 1985 by Hans Runesson. It depicts a 38-year-old woman hitting a marching neo-nazi with a handbag. The photograph was taken during a demonstration of the Nordic Reich Party supporters. It was published in the next day's "Dagens Nyheter" and a day later in some British newspapers. Runesson's photograph was selected as the Swedish Picture of the Year ("Årets bild") 1985 and later as the Picture of the