From the outset, it was well received by the critics, especially in Brazil, with several book-length studies and doctoral theses devoted to it. This disturbing tale of a woman who kills a cockroach differed from her previous books in the dense, intense voice of its first-person narrator and its episodic and fragmented nature. has since proved to be one of Lispector’s best-loved, bestselling, and best-studied works. But this was a short-lived phenomenon: The Passion According to G.H. and threatened to overshadow the reception of the novel. In fact, a collection of short stories entitled A Legião Estrangeira ( The Foreign Legion) was published the same year as A paixão segundo G.H. This served to increase her popularity back home and bring her work to a wider circle of readers than her books alone had managed. During her time abroad, she had continued to write and publish in Brazil, contributing short stories and articles to magazines and newspapers.
It was the first book-length narrative she published following her definitive return to Brazil after sixteen years of accompanying her husband on diplomatic postings around the world. ( The Passion According to G.H.) came out in Rio de Janeiro in 1964. Clarice Lispector’s fifth novel, A paixão segundo G.H.
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