El fin del romance. El fin de una pasión. El fin de la literatura. El fin del propio fin. G. H. —de quien nunca conoceremos el nombre completo—es una mujer independiente, escultora aficionada y bien conectada en los círculos más influyentes de Río de Janeiro. Un día, sola en su ático, vive una experiencia extraordinaria que la enfrenta a sus propios límites. Esta vivencia le provoca náuseas de repulsión y desata un torrente de reflexiones íntimas, algunas hasta entonces desconocidas para ella misma, sobre sus emociones, temores, angustias y la esencia de su existencia. Lo que parece un suceso trivial se transforma en un catalizador que la lleva a examinar su vida desde la infancia y, finalmente, a tomar la determinación de superar sus miedos más profundos. La pasión según G. H., considerada por muchos la obra maestra de Clarice Lispector, confirma a la autora como un clásico indiscutible del siglo XX. En palabras de Luiz Fernando Carvalho, director de la adaptación cinematográfica de la «G.H. se convierte en una aliada de quienes habitan en la catástrofe, de todos nosotros que, en algún momento de nuestras vidas, nos hemos extraviado de nosotros mismos—o de algún otro—, para luego encontrarnos sin salida, apoyándonos en estructuras que de repente se desmoronan».
Author
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War. She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered revolutionary in Brazil. She left Brazil in 1944, following her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, and spent the next decade and a half in Europe and the United States. Upon return to Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she began producing her most famous works, including the stories of Family Ties (Laços de Família), the great mystic novel The Passion According to G.H. (A Paixão Segundo G.H.), and the novel many consider to be her masterpiece, Água Viva. Injured in an accident in 1966, she spent the last decade of her life in frequent pain, steadily writing and publishing novels and stories until her premature death in 1977. She has been the subject of numerous books and references to her, and her works are common in Brazilian literature and music. Several of her works have been turned into films, one being 'Hour of the Star' and she was the subject of a recent biography, Why This World, by Benjamin Moser.
