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. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in brazilian literature…
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Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and “one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk).
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拥有成熟心灵的人,知晓接近是一件缓慢而痛苦的事,无论接近什么。甚至要穿过接近之物的反面。唯有拥有成熟心灵的人,才能渐渐地理解这本书不会夺走任何人与任何事。
但我也不知道要给予发生到我身上的事以何种形体。对我来说,一切皆不存在,除非我给它以形体。以及……以及如果真实恰恰是那不存在的虚无呢?
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