Lispector wrote that of all her works this novel was the one that "best corresponded to her demands as a writer."
Lispector wrote that of all her works this novel was the one that "best corresponded to her demands as a writer."
Bradley says: In her apartment in Rio de Janeiro, a sculptor confronts a cockroach and has to deal with the spiritual implications. Flowing, flowering (but not flowery), mystical, and totally perfect -- my favorite Lispector novel, her most concerned with what precisely being alive (and interacting with aliveness) is. Essential, inimitable, dearly beloved Clarice.
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."
