{"id":4238,"date":"2025-12-18T14:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookertea.com\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2026-10-25T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:03:47","slug":"the-passion-according-to-gh-clarice-lispector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookertea.com\/de\/2025\/the-passion-according-to-gh-clarice-lispector\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passion According to G.H."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Clarice Lispector (Brazil; born in present-day Ukraine)<br>Paperback ISBN: 9780811219686<br>208 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters her maid\u2019s room and, in a moment of panic, kills a cockroach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The encounter detonates a mystical crisis that pushes her into a radical confrontation with selfhood, disgust, faith, and the limits of language\u2014one of Lispector\u2019s most intense and transformative novels.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\nClarice Lispector (1920\u20131977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short-story writer.\nShe studied law in Rio de Janeiro and published widely in Brazilian literary outlets while also\nworking in journalism and cultural writing. 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