“I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.”
Source: The Passion According to G.H. (1964), p. 5
Quotes from book
The Passion According to G.H.
Clarice Lispector
Original title
A Paixão segundo G.H.
(Portuguese, 1964)
The Passion According to G.H. is a mystical novel by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, published in 1964. The work takes the form of a monologue by a woman, identified only as G.H., telling of the crisis that ensued the previous day after she crushed a cockroach in the door of a wardrobe. Its canonical status was recognized in 1988 by its inclusion in the Arquivos Collection, the UNESCO series of critical editions of the greatest works of Latin American literature. It has been translated into English twice, the first time in 1988 by Ronald W. Sousa, and then by Idra Novey in 2012.
“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
Source: The Passion According to G.H.
