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H.  \nCLARICE LISPECTOR  \nTRANSLATED FROM THE PORTUGUESE, WITH A NOTE, BY IDRANOVEY  \nINTRODUCTION BY CAETANO VELOSO EDITED BY BENJAMIN MOSER  \nANEW DIRECTIONS BOOK  \nContents  \nIntroduction by Caetano Veloso  \nTo Possible Readers  \nThe Passion According to G. H.  \nTranslator ’s Note  \nIntroduction  \nI read The Passion According to G. H. as soon as the book came out, in 1964. I was in my early twenties. Clarice had been an illumination when I was seventeen. The story “The Imitation of the Rose,” which I read in a magazine, had fascinated and frightened me. My older brother started buying all of her previously published books for me. I discovered in her other stories the same thing I had seen in “The Imitation of the Rose”: a language that transformed itself in order to allow an event to emerge with the power of an epiphany, amidst the humdrum concerns of a normal life (usually a woman’s life) .  \nThat transformation of language created a kind of lyrical prose that I had never before encountered. That lyricization erased the text — which nonetheless is always a narrative, never a poem—in order to allow some nearly unspeakable thing to appear. The thing.  \nIn “The Imitation of the Rose,” a woman, after a successful psychiatric treatment, goes mad once again at the sight of a bunch of roses. Daily happiness, so harshly reconquered, cannot resist the direct experience of something like an impersonal God, and the experience makes her housewifely existence impossible.  \nAll the other stories I read of Clarice’s at that time had the same basic power, and pointed in the same direction. Their elegance made them perfect objects: each was a dangerous adventure, a miracle of composition. While reading them, the aesthetic experience itself spurred me to think about the experience of being. When I read The Apple in the Dark, it seemed to me that the novel was not ideally suited to Clarice’s inspiration (I still hadn’tread Near to the Wild Heart) .  \nBut The Passion According to G. H. remade—and radicalized—her most beautiful stories. Unlike them, however, it itself wasn’t beautiful. Or maybe it was even more beautiful—but that beauty was hard for me to perceive. In the middle of the book, the narrator says that she had never before had so little fear of bad taste. She had written “billows of muteness”to refer to the content that forced her to use words like a life raft, clinging to them in order to float atop the muteness that fell upon her in successive waves. She would never before have used that expression because she respected “beauty and its intrinsic moderation.”  \nWell, I missed that moderation, which made her short stories read like perfect songs. But I had already been ensnared by the immoderate reflexive disorder of this new beginning of Clarice’s. Here, the characteristics of two extreme and perhaps non-narrative texts come together. These are among the finest texts she produced: the dirge for the murdered gangster Mineirinho, in which her observations on the yawning divisions of Brazilian society emerge so pungently, and the interminable and labyrinthine meditations on “The Egg and the Hen.”  \nAnd then G. H. appears as a novel above and beyond perfection. It’s not a story that leads the reader to philosophical thoughts. And it’s not a philosophical treatise that needs a story to convey them. Instead, it is a vivifying experience that leads a person to the most ambitious philosophical discoveries. An experience transformed into literary art, in which harmony and disorder are the price of the revelation.  \nA younger friend said, back in the Bahia of my early twenties: “I don’t like it much: it’s pantheism.” We were crazy kids. Now I think that this novel of Clarice´s (for me the most beautiful of them all) tells us more about the possibility that Spinoza wrote his Ethics in Portuguese than about the dispute between immanentists and transcendentalists.  \nCaetano Veloso  \nTo Possible Readers  \nThis book ","cbCaipedOYFZyZWJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipedOYFZyZWJ","pdf",811091,139,"English","# Introduction by Caetano Veloso\n## To Possible Readers\n## The Passion According to G. 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