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Front cover of "The Passion According to G.H." by Clarice Lispector, featuring a close-up of a woman's face in a grainy, orange-colored texture.
The Passion According to G.H.
by Clarice Lispector • translated by Idra Novey
Started May 6, 2026

Publication Details

Type: Book
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1964
Translated From: Portuguese

Reading Details

Pages: 189
Location: Lawrence, Kansas (US)

Highlights

First Paragraph:

–––––––––I’m searching, I’m searching. I’m trying to understand. Trying to give what I’ve lived to somebody else and I don’t know to whom, but I don’t want to keep what I lived. I don’t know what to do with what I lived, I’m afraid of that profound disorder. I don’t trust what happened to me. Did something happen to me that I, because I didn’t know how to live it, lived as something else? That’s what I’d like to call disorganization, and I’d have the confidence to venture on, because I would know where to return afterward: to the previous organization. I’d rather call it disorganization because I don’t want to confirm myself in what I lived — in the confirmation of me I would lose the world as I had it, and I know I don’t have the fortitude for another.