- Romance, Fiction, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
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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Intimate, contemplative, grave and prestige.
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Clarice Lispector
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 213
- Publisher
- ALLCA XX, Des femmes, Editôra do Autor
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- English, Spanish, cat, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9788476694077
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Clarice Lispector, nascida Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector (Chechelnyk, 10 de dezembro de 1920 – Rio de Janeiro, 9 de dezembro de 1977\[2\]), foi uma escritora e jornalista de origem ucraniana-judaica (asquenazita). Radicada no Brasil desde a primeira infância, naturalizou-se brasileira em 1943.\[3\] Autora de romances, contos e ensaios, é considerada uma das escritoras brasileiras mais importantes do século XX. Sua obra está repleta de cenas cotidianas simples e tramas psicológicas, reputando-se como uma de suas principais características a epifania de personagens comuns em momentos do cotidiano. Suas obras mais famosas incluem as histórias de *Laços de Família, A Paixão Segundo G.H.,* e aquela
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