Clarice Lispector - The Passion According to G.H BOOK REVIEW
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Im so grateful you introduced Clarice Lispector to me. I read The Passion and her collected Stories on a beach in Lanzarote and it was probably the closest I have and will ever come to a spiritual experience. She is absolutely profound. This is not Literature its Witchcraft!
Dustin Yx. That's what I like to hear
well that's how some people used to call her lol
@@leo-fg9du né! Heehe
Exaclty! She was a witch!
Dammmmnnn! I’m a Brazilian and I never read CL.🥴
clarice lispector. never heard of her. cliff recommends her. I track her book down. I love it. we know the drill
How's that Brazilian literature going?
Your comments are very, very good. I'm Brazilian and study GH in my doctorate. One of the best things I found about GH in the internet. Thank you.
Recommendation : Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis
Will prefer books which are better than food
This is kind of an iconic comment.
This book is a book that you can read in one sit, but that you won't, you'll read it in several, this isthe type of book where you can learn and find something new every single time, is a scaring book, the journey through this book is a journey about facing some of the places inside you that you didn't knew or remembered you had.
Nice profile pic, Anna von Hausswolff is great
I know this video is seven years old and you might not even see this but I just wanted to express my gratitude for you introducing Clarice’s work to me. Since seeing this I have read almost all of her works including her cronicas, and it has completely reinvigorated my passion for literature and sparked a huge interest in Latin American literature. I’m 2 years into college with a english lit major and had a lot of moments of thinking things like “is this for me” and that uncertainty made getting through it difficult. Since then though I’ve really been motivated and though indirectly I owe a lot of it to finding your content. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I love how clarice's characters' "epiphanies" come from the most silly, mundane things, like a cockroach and a blind man chewing gum
This is one of my all time favourites! And I'm so glad to be Brazilian so that I can read her in the original
+O Recado do Silêncio One day!
2018 new subscriber here. Brazilian born and raised but only reading Clarice Lispector now. I’m obsessed with this book! From sentence 1 I could relate to her. I absolutely love her grammatically incorrect sentence formation! She fought very hard with editors because they always wanted to correct them and she never let them. I heard you recite it and It’s funny how imperfectly it translates to English but it’s still able to cause a shock to the reader. I love how you explained her. I’ve watched that interview so many times I’ve memorized her facial expressions. Her honesty, lack of self indulgence, that permanent sadness in her eyes, so fascinating and tragic.
I'm so glad I found someone who appreciates this book as much as I do. I read in a couple of years ago in college and it changed my life. Truly awesome review, man!!! Keep up the good work!
when I first discovered Clarice I was like. I I'll just read all the thing this woman wrote! and I almost did. Each one of her novel are better than the last.
The greatest punch for me is ''The chandelier'' but seriously.... ''Agua Viva'' she creates new forms of Portuguese self-expression.
And Ill be here for each Clarice's video. thanks and bye
As a Brazilian reader this is my favorite book by Clarice Lispector! It's an amazing experience to read each sentence, each word. But also, made me sick in some parts. But it's fantastic! I recommend you to read "The hour of star" by Clarice Lispector! It's another masterpiece of her!
Finishing a book is always satisfying. The feeling of finishing this book was so different. It feels more like a beginning than a satisfying finished accomplishment because it changes you so much. Thank you so much for this recommendation.
Agua Viva is good af, too. Bought that book a while back along with Flow my tears, the policeman said by Philip K. Dick.
The only book written by Clarice Lispector I read was "Laços de Família" (don't know if it's been released for English native speakers). It's a book of short stories and I'm still trying to recover from the reading. Absolutely stunning. And I liked your last say, life's too short to read BS.
Thank you for this. I'm about to start a large project on Clarice Lispector and your review has really helped me to understand her better. I read some of her stories in grade school but that was a really long time ago!
Nice! Always love seeing new videos uploaded man, keep it up!
Clarice deserves these words. She is an awesome woman and a great autor. I like to say she is a gem that the world is finally seeing. Have you read her Complete Stories? She is so good with short stories as she is with romances. Thanks! She really deserves to be read in the world. I’m happy to see that she got so well translated to English. Thanks again!
So glad you actually came around Clarice. I was certain it would be to your taste.
wooo, lispector! as a fervent admirer of brazilian literature and poetry, and, although it's irrelevant, a brazilian myself, I'm glad you're taking a look at this. I personally haven't read a paixão segundo g.h yet (I've read other works from clarice though), but now I really want to.
Mmm there's nothing I love more than watching Bradley cooper review books ❤️
"I see, I did see..." I love this passage!
someone is really banging around your place. Sounds like auite the book sir, your description makes it very tempting
If you haven't read it yet, pleas etake your time with this book. I saw myself reading again paragraphs and whole pages for all the different reasons. To make sure that I read what I read or to make sure I didn't lose any important detail or just to read a beautifully written philosophical provocation. This book takes time and I love it for it.
I'm a 29 yo brazilian reader and now I get why Clarice's voice is so unique and important. What a woman. What a human!
One of the best channels in YT, period.
Love to hear you talking about Clarice!! This book of her is very different from the others she wrote! Please try to read The hour of star! It is my favourite one!
I am new here and loving your videos! Congrats!!
This is the second video I'm watching from your channel, and of course, I came to watch the review of this great work of Clarice Lispector, of whom I'm a huge fan. But this is certainly a very tough book, so I would really recommend for those who want to know her books to start with her tales. There's one in particular which is really beautiful and it's in a book called "Family Ties". It's called "Love". In this tale, you can feel her style and her soul, and maybe understand a little bit better this sense of intense desire for some disturbing experience which could turn an ordinary and safe life into a more comprehensible and meaningful reality (this characteristic of her work just reminds me somewhat of the book, then turned into a movie, - comparing with a more 'accessible' work - "The Fighting Club", only more poetic and with a tendency to also push language into its limits, along with life). And it's a beautiful tale. No cockroaches! (although she tended to have an interesting attraction to the wild nature of life). Another book I recommend is her first work: "Near to the Wild Heart". Also really beautiful. Clarice's work is certainly not easy, but it's worth reading.
I feel very lucky being a portuguese native speaker so that I can try to enjoy all the nuances of Clarice's work. This especific book is my favourite one of her. I see the empty and tiny maid's room as the subconcious of the character, she expected it to be messy but this is all simbolic in so many ways. Her room would be her conscious mind, what she believes she is and everyhting that she wants to show. Everytime i read that i feel more ignorant and fascinated about the story at the same time.
Maybe not negative reviews, but maybe you could make a video sometimes going through some of the authors you don't like and why.
Positive reviews are far more interesting, though, since the readers can discuss their different interpretations of the book in question. Sometimes hearing somebody else's perspective can make you look at a novel in a whole new way.
I was made to read The Hour of the Star when young, for school, and the way she writes gives you such emotionaly charged thoughts it kinda put me of her lol But you make me want to go back and try again with more maturity.
My favorite writer. Thanks for your reviews!
I just found your channel and i'm loving it, so many brazillian authors but very little recognition outside Brazil . I'd to recommend to u Sagarana by Guimarães Rosa ( i dont know if u like littles tales ) but its a good book and the decline and fall of Policarpo Quaresma by Lima Barreto .
All love
Been waiting for this one!
Glad you did this review. I adore Lispector 's work and The Passion is one of my favorite things I've ever read too. She really does have a way of making art with feelings that are so intimate and hard to to verbalize. I for one find it interesting to hear why people didn't like certain books if it's done in a well thought out manner. But I may be in the minority here.
+Elvira Valde I've been told it causes people anxiety, but personally, I find her thought exhilarating.
I, personally, come here for the positive reviews - the impassioned way you talk about the things you love is really refreshing and exciting. That said, maybe you could (every now and then - if you feel like it) do a wrap-up video about things that you have been recommended but not actually enjoyed? That said, I'd be more than happy for things to stay the way they are - your reviews are constantly inspiring me to seek out more excellent books (your reviews have even put me onto some I would now count among my favourites).
+Vi MacDhòmhnaill Good to hear - feedback is appreciated!
Gotta love the air quality in LA!
Yes, this book is dinamite... Read it many years before and by your review I could remember the strengh of this writer...Thanks for your effort...keep the good work...
Sounds like Beckett... will try.
You should definitely get her Complete Stories book. All of her short stories, taken in homeopathic doses daily, that's what I do haha
Thank you! You have experienced something that is beyond reading. Reading Clarice is indefinable. It is about feeling. It ´s about living. :)
Please don't film negative reviews. I come here to hear about books that are better than food, not books that I would pass over for a slice of pizza.
Noted👍
+FromTheDustyBookshelf Now, let's be fair here; if there is a food that is better than books, it is pizza. There are some pretty good books that I'd give up for a slice of good pizza. Now, Pizza Hut, I'd give that up for the fucking Hunger Games. But if it's a local place with some legitimate craftsmanship, that's the Dostoyevsky of food.
Alex M Good point, haha. I think I'd take Pizza Hut over Hunger Games though because those books were pretty bad. I'm curious as to where someone buys pizza that can be considered the Dostoevsky of food. I'm surrounded by mediocre pizza places.
+Better Than Food: Book Reviews I love Nabokov's pedantic lectures.
If you think that you're having an insight about whatever book you read, I would be glad to hear it. No matter how positive or negative. Maybe your thoughts would be better than food. So..
+Better Than Food: Book Reviews I agree. However, if you were to mention a book that you disliked, I would value your opinion, even with only brief explanation of your reasoning. The books that you have reviewed that I've read, I've thoroughly 'enjoyed.' It could potentially be beneficial to move some books to the bottom of the list- to make room for books that aren't bullshit.
Have you read The Hour of the Star by her?
Hi there! Love your channel, some really great recommendations for years to come. Will you ever do any genre book review? you know, something like Lord of the Rings, Dune, or that's simply not your cup of tea? You being a ASOIAF fan would make my day.
+Hattori Hanzo Not my cup of tea, but I'm certainly happy you're getting a lot out of the channel.
The occasional video where you talk about various books you have read and disliked would be good. It would be especially fun to watch videos in which you talk about books you didn't like that everyone else considers 'classics' etc.
Thank you. Greetings from Brazil.
que vídeo incrível, clarice é impecável
"a concise clever answer proves nothing" - something I wish Voltaire actually said
When imagining the scene, remember in Brazil, most cockroaches are those huge flying types.
I discovered her about five years ago, tough sledding but definitely worth it in the end.
I love Clarice, another brazilian book that i think it's very nice, but totally different, is the slum by Aluisio Azevedo if you want to try it
I always recommend her books, though not to unexperienced readers. I recently wrote an essay on her works, discussing modernism and feminism. In my conclusion I found that by reading her she will guide you over bridges you cannot see to answers you are (knowingly or not)looking for and by doing so she'll let you fall in a cliff. I don't know if I recommended it in your comments, but I'll recommend the next one: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa. I think you'll be capable of reading this one now. A Dutch translator, August Willemsen, noted that Rosa wants to make his readers a child again who discovers a rock and knows in an instant that it is a rock before the child knows the word rock.
After reading your comment I went on a search for this book. To my dismay the book is being sold for $300 on Amazon, but luckily I was able to find it at a library that is near me. I hope you are well, and thank you for your comment. I look forward to experiencing this book.
Is cockroach in this novel, in some way, is the reference to Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"? I felt some vibrations on that.
Nice point there,though as far as I remember the book I did not see that reference
Clarice Lispector was a Kafka reader and admired him, so I presume so.
Perhaps, but she wrote a short story that is considered a beta version of the passion according to G.H. in which there are not many similarities between the metamorphosis and what she wanted to say (at least in my perspective). The title of the story is the fifth story (A quinta história in Portuguese) and belongs to the collection of short stories called The Foreign Legion (A Legião Estrangeira).
I think someone already answered this by saying she's a fan of Kafka, but in general we are disgusted by bugs and there are some similarities to discuss: In Metamorphosis, the guy turning into a beetle revolves mostly about how a family could treat their members if they were to traumatize them by an event, even if that event seems to be outside of their control. Lispector does the same with the cockroach, she uses something that most people find revolting (eating a bug) to traumatize us, the reader, and discover how that might change our perceptions of a woman we would otherwise consider to be attractive because of her looks, her status, and so on. Both writers question social expectations in light of how they might conflict with our personal needs, how this creates shame, taboo, in other words: how society is not as free as we'd like it to be and perhaps it's simply so because we are just biological creatures that cannot grasp the full picture of our being. Our societies condition us to think a certain way as we grow up, not only of others but also of ourselves, and they both definitely dare to question what is the status quo of social norms in their respective cultures.
Now I actually need to read this book, because I am a great fan of Kafka and Lispector has been on my list for quite some time lol
Great great major Review!!
Q: Why would a women eat a cockroach?
A: For the vine.
Fucking mouth shut your
yes she is the queen of Brazilian modernism. Hello from a Brazilian student 🇧🇷
You've reviewed The Book of Monelle and The Passion? Definite sub
Paul Celan anytime soon? I mean, just look at these verses:
''The broached year
with its mouldering crusts
of delusion bread.
Drink
from my mouth.''
I don't really think there's much point in negative reviews to be honest. The thing for me is if certain people enjoy these books then good on them! It's just nice that there's a form of literature they are engaged with, this may even evolve over time for them. As you say, life is too short to read bullshit, well surely it's too short to analyse it too. Great review here by the way, I'll pop it on the to read list.
clarice é aquela escritora soco no estômago
Just finished my first read of this book. I wonder how many times I will end up rereading it. Once a year? It will never run dry and will always be full.
it's an honor to be Brazilian and have Clarice by our side
If there's one graphic novel to review, it would be Black Hole by Charles Burns.
You have my vote on that.
I got a copy of Ronald Sousa translation and I found it unreadable. I read about 20 pages and it was just inscrutable and vague. I got the other translation, which you have in your link in the description box.
Alguma alma caridosa poderia providenciar as legendas em português...
Well, the channel is called Better Than Food, but on the other hand, I would love for you to review everything you read, give this channel more variety, you know?
I agree.
I don't think you should do negative reviews, Making only positive reviews is one of the things that makes you stand out in the Booktube community and whatever-deity-exists knows that the last thing we need is more stagnation in the Booktube sphere.
+G. R. R. Tolkien Pretty sold on that ;)
I read The Passion some years ago in the Sousa translation. Might read it again. I remember the difficulty of reading it, but at the time I always blamed Lispector for my illness, for no sooner would I enjoy her than I would fall ill as if the Gods were punishing me for committing blasphemy! She was like a female Wittgeinstein.
I imagine translating Clarice is as hard as translating Virginia Wolf. I tried to read Wolf in Portuguese, failed miserably and always wondered if it was my fault or the translator's.
Can you inform about who made this translation to English that you read?
Hi! I'm a new subscriber and I just wanted to let you know that I love the show! I also have a question; have you read "War Does Not Have a Woman's Face" by Svetlana Aleksijevitsj? Would love to hear your thoughts on it! I recommend it BIG time! Truly better than food.
Have not heard of it - will check it out, thanks for watching!
Don't do it Cliff - negative reviews. Unless you are professionally beholden to having to review bad books (i.e. as a paid reviewer for a newspaper, magazine, etc.) it is as much a waste of your own time as it is anybody else's. I had in fact posted some remarks Auden had made regarding reviewing bad books on this channel some few months ago. I will not repeat them here other than to reiterate the basic point Auden was making, namely that reviewing bad books is bad for one's character.
+Tam Vosper Word Tam.
+Better Than Food: Book Reviews
Keep on keeping on old son - your taste in literature is clearly resonating with a healthily-sized (and growing) readership.
Also, when are you going to do more film reviews? I, for one, have been hanging out for more Better Than Food film recommendations.
Maybe if you were to make a couple videos where you would have a list of your least favorite, just not regularly, because I like what's going on right now.
Is there some possibility that you would make a Q&A?
+DanteZzZ Sure, I wonder what the best format for that would be.
+Better Than Food: Book Reviews Lot of people just announce Q&A either in a separate video or at the and of some video, let people know where are they supposed to send questions (mostly in the comment section below) and eventually make a vid with responses.
god Sargent looks so fricken mature. He has the mannerisms of someone so much older than himself. It's funny to think he's only 26, he is strikingly hansom though! If you're reading this Cliff Sargent, I'm sorry to butter you up so much with what I'm saying!
I take it you like this book.
Any suggestions for books about Clarice Lispector of specifically about “The Passion According to G.H.?”
I've started reading her thanks to youtube, not heard about her before and really enjoyed her works, a real gem. I read several of her stories, but this one could be my least favorite😓. I don't know, maybe couldn't capture the depth or the symbolism in it, maybe the translated version. The story is hard to follow and full of philosophical references. The topic is intriguing but there are other stories of her, which to me are more enjoyable to read and immersive.🤔
É, parece que mais uma vez ele sumonou agnt
Have you read In the Land of Punctuation by Christian Morgenstern? It's a short poem published in 1905, and the illustrated Tara Books edition is phenomenal. The poem details a brutal civil war among punctuation, perpetrated against semicolons. The illustrations are composed only of punctuation marks in red, white, and black, and it's bloody and awful and prescient.
We are talking about art right? Why should we expect everyone to enjoy ALL the same things. Not enjoying something is not negative. As long as the "negative" review is honest and insightful then there is merit in it. Just have good reasons for your opinion and give us what you consider the positives about the work in your elegant way. This is what made me subscribe; not whether we agree on each review. Seen in this light, you likely have already given several "negative" reviews, depending on who you ask. :-)
I don’t know what’s the deal with me. I was already a fan of Clarice even before I read a single novel written by her. The interview that Cliff mentioned in this video is what it got me. What an interesting, beautiful, rational, sensitive, unique and contagious woman she was. Buuut somehow her writting is not really for me. I gave her a chance and read 4 of her books. Cliff’s review is certainly spot on! Its Clarice all there! But it is too intense and deep for me..
I guess I am a simple man with a simple mind...
Try her short stories.
Read Antonio di Benedetto!!!
Yep, wonderful book, wonderful author. 2 of her books never translated into English before out this year.
But I will disagree with you both on a couple of things: 1) even geniuses sometimes do stupid things, yes of course, but also it is just possible that geniuses are so engaged 24-7 in thinking about the world in order to capture it, that the mundane things do not even enter consciousness because they would erode the intensity of thought (and pish and fie on authors who credit that the tiny detail of the mundane equates to grand meaning of life and being, stand up Jon McGregor, no in fact, sit back down). And 2) which is related, I accept Lispector felt she was only ever an amateur author, but if you have a mundane paying job that keeps you away from the writing desk, this does not help or advance once's literary art. Different strokes I guess. But for me as an author, screw having to be a working stiff in parallel, there is nothing elevating for the soul to be had there.
random story about dust getting into his eyes in the beginning, skip to 1:09
To save one minute? Just this??? Really?
Would you ever consider doing a fan meetup at Powells books?
+Keaton Quinlan Possibly - I grew up there and it was a huge part of my life. That would be strange. I'll consider it.
Hopefully!
+Keaton Quinlan I'll certainly keep it in mind , thank you Keaton.
you're amazing BTW, best damn channel on youtube, every video feels like a damn good conversation to a person you feel connected too. KEEP IT UP
+Keaton Quinlan thanks very much, I shall
You need to read Érico Verissimo.
Criticism of negative things only grows the appreciation for good things. If this channel would every now and then have negative reviews of awful books for the sake of raising our appreciation for the good ones, then yes negative criticism would be a great addition to the channel. If made in an informative way that shows what makes a book 'bad' and thereby what makes a book 'good' rather than have it be just a grumble against something one personally dislikes then I think you should absolutely go for it
why would you spoil the book?
Have you heard of Carl Gustav Jung?
Maybe one video with a lot of small reviews explaining why you don't like them. Just a generic "Books I Don't Like and Why." May add another dimension to the channel, while not flooding it with all kinds if reviews.
Please, do not do negative reviews. I don't see your work as literary criticism, it is better than that. You're like a friend recommending that amazing book you've been reading recently. That's what makes your channel so attractive to me.
I'm reading this book right now, but I don't think I got all the message
why would you ruin the end of the book in the thumbnail of your video?
fuck, that's good writing.
can't remember if Clarice Lispector led me to you or you led me to Clarice Lispector
De ódio. Bem-vindo. Achei as louca.
Longo caminho
😍😍
I dunno, if you didn't care for Ulysses you might not like Gravity's Rainbow for the same reasons though it's not AS crazy.
hey! Read The large comment i made on Cioran's vídeo. Its too important to miss.
+Bernardo Alabés I did, I'll take your recommendation.
+Better Than Food: Book Reviews Great!
Great content as always. But these constant ad interruptions are bullshit.
Realmente você não entende Clarice Lispector. A maior escritora que o Brasil conheceu. Se você não entendeu de primeira, procure pesquisar o contexto histórico em que esse livro foi escrito, procure saber mais quem foi essa grandíssima pessoa... Mas não irá de surpreender-me se esse pessoal que não sabe o que é morar em países subdesenvolvidos não conseguir aproveitar a grandiosa Clarice.
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.
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