The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector by Clarice Lispector
The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispectors mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maids 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., Translated by Idra Novey. Originally published in Portuguese in 1964.
General Fiction
The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
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Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Sofia Willingham
Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Adults, Literature
The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispectors mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maids 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., Translated by Idra Novey. Originally published in Portuguese in 1964.
