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The passion according to G.H. / Clarice Lispector ; translation by Ronald W. Sousa

By:

Lispector, Clarice

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Emergent literaturesPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , c1988.Description: ix, 173 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780816617128

Uniform titles:

Paixão segundo G.H . English

DDC classification:

LAS FIC LIS

LOC classification:

PQ9697.L585 P313 1988

Summary: This Ukranian-born Brazilian author is regarded in France as a philosopher rather than a storyteller. Here she offers a meditation on the human condition full of aphoristic declarations and merciless self-scrutiny. The narrator, whose identity is continually undone and remade, claims she doesn't have ``a word to say,'' then observes, ``But if I don't force myself to talk, silence will forever engulf me in waves.'' Plot is secondary; the aim is to push language to the limit.

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Translation of: A paixão segundo G.H.

This Ukranian-born Brazilian author is regarded in France as a philosopher rather than a storyteller. Here she offers a meditation on the human condition full of aphoristic declarations and merciless self-scrutiny. The narrator, whose identity is continually undone and remade, claims she doesn't have ``a word to say,'' then observes, ``But if I don't force myself to talk, silence will forever engulf me in waves.'' Plot is secondary; the aim is to push language to the limit.

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