The Passion According to G.H.
by Clarice Lispector
2020-12-30 07:42:41
The Passion According to G.H.
by Clarice Lispector
2020-12-30 07:42:41
Lispectorâs most shocking novel. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispectorâs mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maidâs room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, pan...
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Lispectorâs most shocking novel. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispectorâs mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maidâs room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door âcrushing the cockroach âand 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 âbest corresponded to her demands as a writer.â
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