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Lispector’s most shocking novel.
The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door —crushing the cockroach —and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature…
Lispector wrote that of all her works this novel was the one that “best corresponded to her demands as a writer.”
Anonymous
Posted March 15, 2000
This is a book which attempts to confront anti-matter itself. It is a face to face confrontation with the other, a cockroach (the most durable of insects). In this way, it is also a mystical text, in which the identity of the author is transformed into pure absence. All our accepted notions are sucked into this vortex created by the author's absence, and, as we read on, we too, as readers, are sucked into this vacuum. As such, this is a very frightening book, for it threatens to undo those beliefs about ourselves that we have taken for granted. Reading this book thus consists in a process of undoing oneself. If it took courage to write, it also takes courage to read.
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Posted March 30, 2013
A black male wolf with ice blue eyes padded in. I am shade, he said
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Posted December 30, 2012
When reading Clarice Lispector, the reader is meeting a character that self reconstructs in each paragraph. She captures the intimate reality of things and the magic of an instant. She keeps a dialog form, but there is no structure of such, it is a monolog. She plays with punctuation signs. In "The Passion According to G.H", she creates a world alive, and at the same time, she is the messenger of the unbearable, of the facts of life that cannot be understood. This book, as her previous ones, must be placed in a special place in the library under the name "Treasures"
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Lispector’s most shocking novel.
The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door —crushing the cockroach —and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian ...