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Paixao Segundo G. H
Paixao Segundo G. H | Clarice Lispector, Jos' Revueltas
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erzascarletbookgasm
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Mehso-so

My 1st Lispector is unlike any novel I‘ve read. The whole book is the interior monologue of the main character, who seems to be on existential crisis as she muses on identity, death, religion,etc. Her complex philosophical ideas on life are perplexing to me; her thoughts are often contradictory & hard to follow, yet hypnotic. Not a book for everyone. For it being hypnotic & provocative merely from an encounter with a cockroach, it‘s not a ‘pan‘.

BarbaraBB I think I didn‘t get this book.. I had no idea what I was reading 8mo
Suet624 @BarbaraBB Hahaha. Love your comment. 8mo
erzascarletbookgasm @BarbaraBB I didn‘t get it either 😂. I almost bailed but I was amused with her ‘ramblings‘ and wondered where it was all going…nowhere! 8mo
BarbaraBB Nowhere 🤣🤣 8mo
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BarbaraBB
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Mehso-so

This is a hard book to read. G.H. is a Brazilian artist who is experiencing a breakdown after discovering a big cockroach in the otherwise extremely clean room of her maid. What follows is a monologue about this mystical crisis. @Liz_M already warned me for the ending and I felt sorry I was just having breakfast when I came to it. This book will linger in the back of my mind forever I think and I‘m not exactly happy with that. #1001books

Cinfhen I love this review!!!!! Although I‘m sorry you were traumatized xxx (edited) 4y
Liz_M That was fast! I read this at the right moment and was mesmerized by it, but yeah. Sorry you read the ending at breakfast 🤢 4y
BarbaraBB @Liz_M I was mesmerized too but like when you know something bad is about to happen and yet you don‘t look away. 4y
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vivastory Despite you rating this a so-so I'm enormously intrigued by your review, so much that I just put a hold on it at the library to pick up after work. And since I apparently can't go more than a few days without referencing Backlisted I figured I'd mention that an upcoming episode will focus on Lispector's 4y
BarbaraBB @vivastory I think it‘s a book you may very well like (although liking is not yhe word yo use). I did too and my so-so is a bit underrated I think. I was too soon with met review. I also think @Reggie may enjoy this book. 4y
BarbaraBB @vivastory Thanks for mentioning the Backlisted episode! 4y
Megabooks Yikes re: ending! 4y
Reggie I remember reading a short story of hers and just shrugging but I will stack this and give it a try. 4y
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BarbaraBB
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This is quite the foreword!

Liz_M Good luck! 4y
BarbaraBB @Liz_M Have you read it? 4y
Megabooks Wow! 4y
Liz_M ~whistles innocently~ I didn't recommend it, no not me. Don't get me wrong, I thought this book was brilliant, but I don't exactly encourage others to read it. The syntax is challenging and the event near the end still gives me the heebie-jeebies. 4y
BarbaraBB @Liz_M It IS challenging! I‘ll keep you posted 4y
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BarbaraBB
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#WeeklyForecast 11/20

I am reading and almost finished with the heartbreaking The Absolutist. John Boyne is such a great writer. Next will be Fair Play, an informal #buddyread with @vivastory and @Suet624 The tagged one is another #1001books which I ordered for #FoodAndLit #Brazil but only received just now. And again I hope to make a start with The Morbids this week.

Cinfhen All sounds good!! 👌🏾 4y
Suet624 It looks like Fair Play will take about two minutes to read. 🤣🙄 4y
BarbaraBB @Suet624 Lol It will be not much of a buddyread indeed 🤣 4y
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sarahbarnes I‘ve been wanting to reading something from Clarice Lispector for awhile now! Can‘t wait to hear what you think. 4y
Cathythoughts Where have I heard of Lispector recently .... was it in Tender is the Flesh ? 😬it was somewhere in another book someone was reading her 4y
BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts That might very well be the case, but in any case the abducted woman‘s in this novel is Clarice too: 4y
Cathythoughts Ah !! That sounds more like it ! I can‘t remember 🙄... but it‘s ringing bells.. Clarice Lispector... 🤔 4y
Cathythoughts I‘m probably thinking Silence of the Lambs too .... ( lots of connections for me 4y
BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts I think you are right about Tender is the Flesh too! 4y
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Angitron
The Passion According to G.H. | Clarice Lispector
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Mehso-so

This book didn‘t do anything for me personally, though I can see why some love it. A woman walks into her maid‘s room, encounters and kills a roach, an act which triggers an existential crisis. The next 160-ish pages are her internal musings on the nature of being, purpose, God, self-identity and more. It‘s pure navel gazing of a member of the privileged class. That said, the structure propelled me forward and the language was lush. But...meh.

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Emilymdxn
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Pickpick

Clarice is the master, there‘s just nothing else to say. This was like the spirit of a medieval mystic in a twentieth century existentialist‘s body and I loved every second of it. Beautiful, original, occasionally shocking (if you‘ve read it you KNOW which bit I‘m talking about 😱🦗), this book was like absolutely nothing else. I plan to buy a paper copy to refer to again, which I‘ve never actually done with a book before

Liz_M I have nightmares because of this book. ~shudder~ 6y
BarbaraBB Great review. I still need to read this one for the #1001books list and will bump it up my tbr now! 6y
batsy I've only read Hour of the Star and her short stories, but your second sentence really sums up how it is to experience her. Nice review! 6y
Weaponxgirl I‘ve been wanting to read her for ages! 6y
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Sha0102
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Pickpick

What a book! I've gotta a headache but it was worthy. A unique narrative by one of the best Brazilian writers. "The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices." #Sha2017

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Sha0102
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📚 ❤

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readordierachel
The Passion According to G.H. | Clarice Lispector
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"Aficionados of South American fiction as well as literary critics will welcome this posthumous translation of a nearly plotless novel by one of Brazil's foremost writers. Availing herself of a single character, Lispector transforms a banal situation—a woman at home, alone—into an amphitheater for philosophical investigations."

#setinsouthernhemisphere #junebookbugs
@RealLifeReading

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jveezer
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Pickpick

This book is going to take a couple of re-reads but...WOW. I love the epigram even if I didn't know if I qualified!

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jveezer
The Passion According to G.H. | Clarice Lispector
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Reading this one from the short list of the 1965/2015 Daphne Awards. Been on my TBR list for a while...