The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Brazil Latin American Modernism Philosophy

Written by Clarice Lispector
Read by Sofia Willingham
Format: MP3
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Unabridged

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.”

Translated by Idra Novey. Originally published in Portuguese in 1964.