The Passion According to G.H.
- The Passion According to G.H.
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name = The Passion According to G.H.
title_orig = A Paixão segundo G.H.
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author = Clarice Lispector
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country = Brazil
language = Portuguese
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release_date = 1964
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A Paixão segundo G.H., translated into English as "The Passion According to G.H.", is a 1964 novel by Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector.
Written in an intensely introspective style, the novel deals with an upper-class woman, known only as G.H., who enters the room where her maid has lived till recently. G.H. sees a cockroach in the room, spurring her into a series of intense rhapsodies and revelations about her place in nature and her relation to the past of the Earth. Through the deep and real contact G.H. establishes with herself and with the world, by reflecting about the maid, reading hatred sayings the maid wrote about her on the wall, besides many things, the reader can infere from G.H.'s thoughts, conclusions and sublimations, that she had committed an abortion. By finding and smashing the cockroach at her maid's room door, G.H. figures out such matters,(specially because of the hatred from the maid towards her) she sees herself in a much worser condition than the smashed cockroach's, then she tries to absorb the cockroach's essence and life, by licking it. Detaining herself in an intense nausea.
Criticism
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEED7153AF93BA35752C0A96F948260 NY Times: Everything happens in the maid's room] Levilson C. Reis. "G. H., Janair, and the "Mulata": Race and Gender in Lispector's "The Passion According to G. H"." "Notes on Contemporary Literature" 35.2 (2005): 7-9.
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