Actress Maria Fernanda Cândido, filmmaker Luiz Fernando Carvalho, New Directions president Barbara Epler, and series editor Benjamin Moser will discuss the work and life of Clarice Lispector in a conversation moderated by critic and curater Carlos Valladares.
When: Wednesday, March 11 at 7:00pm
Where: The Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY
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The Passion According to G.H.
by Clarice Lispector
translated by Idra Novey
edited by Benjamin Moser
“[Lispector] left behind an astounding body of work that has no real corollary inside literature or outside it.”
—Rachel Kushner, Bookforum
“As soon as I slammed the book shut, my understanding of G.H.’s story began to take on an almost-corporeal reality.”
—Emma Komlos-Hrobsky, Tin House
The Passion According to G. H.
directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho
screening at BAM March 13-19
Based on the novel by Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H. takes place in Rio de Janeiro in 1964. G. H. (Maria Fernanda Cândido) decides to clean her apartment by herself after her maid has quit, and finds a cockroach that reveals her own horror of the world, a reflection of a society full of prejudice against those it treats as subordinate. As she faces the insect, she descends into an existential Via Crucis, losing her identity and questioning all conventions that imprison women to this day.
