The Passion According to G.H.

Informationen zum Autor Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called "astounding" (Rachel Kushner), "a penetrating genius" (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and "one of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers" (Orhan Pamuk). Klappentext 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."

Product details

• Authors: Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Idra Norey
• Assisted by: Benjamin Moser (Editor), Idra Novey (Translation)
• Publisher: New Directions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.06.2012
• EAN: 9780811219686
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-1968-6
• No. of pages: 193
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Series: New Directions Books; New Directions Books
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature