I keep looking, looking. Trying to understand. Trying to give what I have gone through to someone else, and I don''t know who, but I don't want to be alone with that experience.
To Potential Readers:
This is a book just like any other book. But I would
be happy if it were read only by people whose outlook is
fully formed. People who know that an approach - to
anything whatsoever - must be carried out gradually
and laboriously, that it must traverse even the very
opposite of what is being approached. They and they
alone will, slowly, come to understand that this book
exact nothing of anyone. Over time, the character G. H.
came to give me, for example, a very difficult
pleasure; but it is called pleasure.
C.L.
Originally published as A paixao sequndo G.H.,
copyright The heirs of Clarice Lispector.
Copyright 1988 by the University of Minnesota
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in
any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo-
copying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written
permission of the publisher.
Published by the University of Minnesota Press
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Published simultaneously in Canada
by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Markham.
Printed in the United States of America.
The University of Minnesota
is an equal-opportunity
educator and employer.
CLARICE LISPECTor
Translation by
Ronald W.
SOUSA
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