![]() Lispector had certainly read her Kafka, and while his Metamorphosis is an obvious influence, she is attempting something quite different. ![]() Rather, the narrative reads like the interior monologue of someone undergoing a spiritual and physical metamorphosis. The novel is narrated by a wealthy Brazilian sculptor, G.H., who is not so much a three-dimensional entity as she is a state of mind traced out through bracingly strange and allusive prose. is the record of one woman’s struggle to give voice to such an epiphanic moment, and to make out the contours of what, if anything, might lie beyond the reach of conventional language. Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. The average human does not live in a permanent state of receptiveness to whatever is beyond the cage of the self, and when a profound experience does happen to “un-selve” her, she might spend the rest of her life trying to describe it. Spirituality is a difficult subject to pin down and an even harder one to talk about. ![]() ![]() 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…” “ 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. ![]()
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