The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (WIT Book Club)

The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
Published: 1964

"Brilliant ... Lispector should be on the shelf with Kafka and Joyce"
― Los Angeles Times

"The premier Latin American woman prose writer of this century"
― The New York Times Book Review

One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by Women

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach — black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis, in which she questions her place in the universe and her very identity, propelling her towards an act of shocking transgression. Clarice Lispector's spare, deeply disturbing yet luminous novel transforms language into something otherworldly, and is one of her most unsettling and compelling works.

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