The Passion According to G.H. (New Directions Books)
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Book Info
Author
Lispector, Clarice
Word Count
55,000 words
based on page count
Pages
220 pages
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Edition Publisher
New Directions
Edition Publish Date
2012-06-13
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0811219682
ISBN-13: 9780811219686
Description
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.”
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