"The Passion According to G.H." by Clarice Lispector (Brazil, 1964)
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Here's my video on "Hour of the Star" from a while ago if interested.
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Appreciate your video Mike on Clarice Lispector. She is definitely one of the finest crafter of wordplay. Glad you gave us a glimpse into it. Looking forward to more works from around the world
it’s so nice so many people are reading and falling in love with her writing. She has a unique way of expressing her thoughts and feelings and it is very difficult to me, and i think to everyone, to explain it. It took me a lot of time to convince my friends to read it, but when they did it was instantly love and adoration too.
@@marcelasbr Absolutely. It can't be explained, only experienced.
Life is better with Clarice! So glad you enjoy this amazing author. Agua viva is also life-changing in my experience but I don’t know how this can work in english hahaha Good luck!
@@giovaniramos7276 Well I know many people do enjoy it in English! Sometimes I find that reading a translation can be even more interesting because there is another layer of analysis there. I've been listening to all of Clarice's works in Portuguese in audio format as I read them though, and it really does come off differently than English translations.
@@mikereadstheworld I’m sure that will be a fantastic experience 🤍 I read some parts of passion according to GH and they kept the spirit of the thing. The translators are awesome, a lot of them speaks Portuguese really well and are readers of Clarice, feels that they put o lot of love in this project
You should read 'Agua-Viva' next. In Brazil her short stories are also really popular, specially Family Bonds. Life has whatever meaning you attach to it. It is only natural for the artist to say art gives meaning to life--their life first and foremost.
@@TheLinguistsLibrary I look forward to Agua Viva, it is next. I agree that people can say and feel whatever they want about what gives them meaning, but there's no art without life.
Hi Mike,
I have just watched your passionate review of "A Paixão Segundo GH" by Clarice Lispector, and I thought you might like to know that last April, one of Brazil's best filmmakers, Luiz Fernando Carvalho, released a feature film based on this book.
Here is a link to a short video clip with an interview featuring the lead actress, Maria Fernanda Cândido, and the film director.
Hope you like it!
Ps. The interview is originally in Portuguese, but I reckon it won't be a problem for you.
ua-cam.com/video/gbNJaIfKHeI/v-deo.html
By the way, congratulations for your beautiful review of the book.
@@luizfloripa222 Thank you very much! I will look into that, I can't imagine how this could be turned into a film! Yes my Portuguese is improving, not quite good enough to read entire novels in or speak fluently but it's getting there and definitely a goal of mine to improve.
What did you feel when you read Agua Viva?
@@milfredcummings717 I haven't read it yet, but I look forward to it as well as Breath of Life!
@@mikereadstheworld I was afraid you hadn't read the book yet. Now I feel like a doctor who has to tell you sad news. Good luck anyway.
@@milfredcummings717 Not a fan? That was one of the books that looking at it scared me away from her work at first but now I'm more open minded to it, having enjoyed some of her other novels.
@@mikereadstheworld A fan? I don't know. I have her photo on my desktop. 😁You probably misunderstood me. Read the book and it will be clearer to you what I meant. It's really short, you can read it in a couple of hours. I wish there were more "writers" like her. Maybe the comparison is stupid, but she reminds me the most of Kafka. Not by her writing style, but more by her attitude towards writing and the effect she achieves with some of her stories and novels. There are many writers I like, but I have a rather cynical attitude towards professional writers. Sometimes I could say I despise them. I'm not saying she's a perfect writer, nor could I be objective about her writing. But there is something about her writing that I love. I don't know how to define it, maybe honesty. She tries to say things that cannot be described in words. This novel is particularly disturbing, especially the ending.
@@milfredcummings717 Ah yes, I misunderstood your meaning. It sounds really great but I don't like to binge author's bibliographies, but rather give some space between reading each work to let them each sink in and be distinct.
I do know what you mean about no other writer is like her, at least for me no book is like GH