The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

will come to pass

A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain

the conversation finally touches on their children and

he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library

The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector Fernando PessoaG. H., a well to do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach black, dusty, prehistoric crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis, in which she questions her place in the universe and her very identity, propelling her