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# The Passion According to G.H. (New Directions Books)

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Buy The Passion According to G.H. (New Directions Books) by Lispector, Clarice, Novey, Idra, Moser, Benjamin from desertcart's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.

Review: Challenging but Infinitely Absorbing - I'm in something of a Lispector reading phase right now - read 'The Hour of the Star' decades ago, and although it made a lasting impression on me, I wasn't sure why, and with hindsight I somehow don't feel I was wholly 'ready' for now. Recently, I've read Agua Viva as well as The Passion, have The Besieged City on my 'bought and to read' list and am working my way through the Complete Stories. The Passion barely has a conventional plot, it's about - if anything - a transformative experience whose specific circumstances I'm not sure I am able to fully buy into. But this doesn't really matter - I feel Lispector is very explicitly inviting us to step into our own experience in old or (new-very-old) ways and what happens in G.H's maid's bedroom is by any stretch a good enough vehicle for what is essentially intended as a universalist 'message' or lure. At this stage in my life, personally I feel ripe for her work, and unhesitatingly ready to accompany her, or to acknowledge an appeal repeatedly made by the narrator of 'The Passion' to reach out my hand to her. Any comment on the quality of the translation is limited by my lack of knowledge of Portuguese, alas, yet with that massive caveat in place, I can say that nothing jars, and all my intuition is the adverb 'lovingly' would not be inapt.
Review: one of the great 20th century writers - No cliches, pure work of art! If you are in search of real creative talent, Clarice Lispector will amaze you.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 0811219682 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 172,454 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 1,561 in Literary Fiction (Books) 2,582 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (393) |
| Dimensions  | 13.46 x 1.52 x 20.57 cm |
| ISBN-10  | 9780811219686 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0811219686 |
| Item weight  | 1.05 kg |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 220 pages |
| Publication date  | 19 Jun. 2012 |
| Publisher  | New Directions |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Challenging but Infinitely Absorbing
*by M***E on 17 March 2021*

I'm in something of a Lispector reading phase right now - read 'The Hour of the Star' decades ago, and although it made a lasting impression on me, I wasn't sure why, and with hindsight I somehow don't feel I was wholly 'ready' for now. Recently, I've read Agua Viva as well as The Passion, have The Besieged City on my 'bought and to read' list and am working my way through the Complete Stories. The Passion barely has a conventional plot, it's about - if anything - a transformative experience whose specific circumstances I'm not sure I am able to fully buy into. But this doesn't really matter - I feel Lispector is very explicitly inviting us to step into our own experience in old or (new-very-old) ways and what happens in G.H's maid's bedroom is by any stretch a good enough vehicle for what is essentially intended as a universalist 'message' or lure. At this stage in my life, personally I feel ripe for her work, and unhesitatingly ready to accompany her, or to acknowledge an appeal repeatedly made by the narrator of 'The Passion' to reach out my hand to her. Any comment on the quality of the translation is limited by my lack of knowledge of Portuguese, alas, yet with that massive caveat in place, I can say that nothing jars, and all my intuition is the adverb 'lovingly' would not be inapt.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ one of the great 20th century writers
*by S***A on 26 November 2013*

No cliches, pure work of art! If you are in search of real creative talent, Clarice Lispector will amaze you.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A luminous exploration of experience as the route to self knowledge
*by T***Z on 2 August 2024*

The Passion According to G. H. follows no complex plot. A single bourgeois woman enters the room of her African maid, who has recently resigned for unspecified reasons. The narrator is astonished by how the room’s harsh brightness contrasts with the sombre milieu of the rest of her penthouse apartment, and appalled by what appears to be a caricature of herself scrawled on a wall. Opening a wardrobe door, she is startled to see a cockroach. She makes the error, or perhaps takes the liberating step, of slamming the door on the body of the unfortunate roach. In the whole of the rest of the book, she decides to take one single further minor if bizarre and, it turns out, hugely significant action. The twin experiences of the cartoon and the vision of the dying cockroach precipitate a tidal wave of perception, in turn provoking complex metaphysical reflection, full of ambiguities and contradictions but framed in beautiful language, almost hallucinatory in its intensity. These reflections lead, through frequently counter-intuitive logic, to a series of overwhelming emotions: joy, despair, horror, resignation. Despite the relative absence of dramatic events and the reader’s consternation at the contradictory quality of the prose, the narrative is driven forwards by its luminously transcendental language. While the novel has been described as mystical, its emphasis on experience as the primary motivation in the task of every individual to come to terms with their own status as a human being and that being’s place in the world position it firmly within the body of existential phenomenology. Although her methods are very different, Lispector’s aim is identical to that of Sartre: to explore how the individual might, through the intense complexities of experience, break through the comfortable constructs of reality to determine their genuine place in the physical world. In the case of GH, this is achieved by her final carefully deliberated and small but revolting transgression. The circuitous and contradictory nature of the text is a challenge, but the luminescent quality of the language (in Idra Novey’s compelling translation) is more than compensation. A satisfying read.

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