Talk:The Passion According to G.H.

2012?

Is the 2012 translation already translated for publication next year, or is it a typo? Thanks, Manytexts (talk) 12:01, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

It does appear to have come out in June 2012. Incidentally, this article on the two translations might be a source of material for expanding this article. --Delirium (talk) 21:23, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Plagiarism

Much of this article seems to have been plagiarized from Benjamin Moser's biography, specifically from pages 261 onwards, but particularly p. 263. Though I guess it is not strictly speaking wholesale, there are plenty of individual sentences that have been taken from Moser's account.

Moser: In the maid’s room, that woman expects chaos. Instead, to her shock, she finds a desert, “an entirely clean and vibrating room as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed.” “The room was the opposite of what I had created in my house, the opposite of the soft beauty that came from my talent for arrangement, my talent for living, the opposite of my serene irony, of my sweet and exempt irony: it was a violation of my quotation marks, of the quotation marks that made me a citation of myself. The room was the portrait of an empty stomach.” Only one thing disturbs its perfect order: black carbon scratches on the dry white wall, outlines of a man, a woman, and a dog. Pondering the inscrutable drawing, she realizes that the black maid, whose name she has forgotten and whose face she has trouble calling to mind, had hated her. [...] Overwhelmed by anger, she declares, “I wanted to kill something in there.” [...] Opening the door to the wardrobe—“and the darkness inside escaped like a puff ”10—she sees a cockroach. Terrified, she slams the door, crushing the roach in its middle. A whitish substance begins to ooze from its body.

WP: In the maid's room, G.H. expects chaos. Instead, to her shock, she finds a desert; "an entirely clean and vibrating room as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed". "The room was the opposite of what I had created in my house, the opposite of the soft beauty that came from my talent for arrangement, my talent for living, the opposite of my serene irony, of my sweet and exempt irony: it was a violation of my quotation marks, of the quotation marks that made me a citation of myself. The room was the portrait of an empty stomach." Only one thing disturbs the room's perfect order: black carbon scratches on the dry white wall, outlining a man, a woman, and a dog. Pondering the inscrutable drawing, she realizes that the black maid, whose name she initially forgets, and whose face she has trouble calling to mind, had hated her. Overwhelmed by anger, she opens the door to the wardrobe. Terrified by the cockroach she sees emerging, she slams the door shut, severing the cockroach in its centre, and sees the still-living animal's entrails beginning to ooze out.

--jbmurray (talk • contribs) 20:55, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Fixed it Isthistwisted (talk) 22:47, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Original research in "Literary techniques" section?

Some of the content in this section seems to stray beyond factual description of Lispector's writing, and into non-cited analytical conclusions. The particular sentences I am pointing to are:

"However, it also connects the discrete parts of the novel, as if saying that every end is also a beginning – something that accompanies Lispector's motifs of time and eternity."

and

"As opposed to most literature, the narrator is not important as a human subject, but rather as a mode to express ideas that are beyond and above the human. Thus Lispector implies that G.H.'s perspective in the novel is not limited to her but is representative of the human species and its breakdown."

I have not read the book myself, so someone who has may want to decide if the above sentences are self-evident in the book, or cases of original research.

Oreb Good Bird (talk) 07:23, 9 September 2021 (UTC)