863 reviews for:

The Passion According To G. H.

Clarice Lispector

4.1 AVERAGE

sacali's review against another edition

4.75

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

mamveverkyvkalhotach's review against another edition

4.25

emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

kmgriffin02's review against another edition

4.0

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only miss lispector could make such a profound book about seeing a cockroach. to me this book is like if the character jo march from little women saw a cockroach on the floor and then started spiraling about what she wants for her future and then also had an abortion.

ennakkoon's review against another edition

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"I know that if I abandoned what was a life entirely organized around hope, I know that abandoning all that–in favor of a wider thing which is being alive–abandoning all that hurts like separating from a child not yet born. Hope is a child not yet born, only promised, and that bruises."

"But I know that at the same time I want and no longer want to contain myself. It's like death throes: some thing in death wants to break free and yet fears letting go of the safety of the body. I know it is dangerous to speak of the lack of hope, but listen–a deep alchemy is happening in me, and it was in the fire of hell that it was forged. And it gives me the greatest right: to err."

A labor to get through but the ending was rewarding. Felt like the author's own personal dealings with self, persona and being.

lexi_likes_to_read's review against another edition

4.5

challenging reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Woman crushes roach in wardrobe, has a crash out, in hell, hallucinates, struggles to find the meaning of life, hallucinates more, finds God, eats the roach.

vivita_19's review against another edition

4.5

challenging reflective

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the terrors and beauty of existence

chaloberry's review against another edition

3.5

challenging reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

seethmione's review against another edition

4.0

dark inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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من محکوم بودم به نمردن چون اگر می‌مردم، حتی برای یک بار هم، دیگر مرده بودم. و دلم نمی‌خواست بمیرم بلکه می‌خواستم دائم در حال مردن باشم مانند لذت بی‌انتهایی که در درد وجود دارد. در جهنمی بودم که لذت از آن گذر کرده بود مانند لذت بسیار کوچکی که بدن را مورمور می‌کند. و تمام اینها، تمام اینها در پناه امن بی‌تفاوتی رخ داد.

leopoldo_orozco's review against another edition

3.0

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Más bien un 3.5

La narrativa de Lispector es valiosísima, y es una de las cartas más fuertes de la narrativa latinoamericana. Su estilo es prodigioso, es como una amalgama brasileña entre Kafka y Virginia Woolf. Sin embargo, no sé si este libro me gustó o no. Me pareció demasiado largo, y el discurso me pareció a veces repetitivo. Aun así, me llama mucho la atención saber cómo construye su narrativa más breve, y seguiré leyendo a la autora en un futuro próximo.

bewareofhana's review against another edition

4.0

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I want whatever she's smoking thanks