Editing Clarice Lispector (section)

===''The Passion According to G.H.'' and ''The Foreign Legion''===
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In 1964, Lispector published one of her most shocking and famous books, ''[[The Passion According to G.H.|A paixão segundo G.H.]]'', about a woman who, in the maid's room of her comfortable Rio penthouse, endures a mystical experience that leads to her eating part of a cockroach. In the same year, she published another book of stories and miscellany, ''The Foreign Legion''.

The American translator [[Gregory Rabassa]], who first encountered Lispector in the mid-1960s, at a conference on Brazilian literature, in Texas, recalled being "flabbergasted to meet that rare person [Lispector] who looked like [[Marlene Dietrich]] and wrote like [[Virginia Woolf]]".<ref>{{cite web |last=Salamon |first=Julie |author-link=Julie Salamon |title=An Enigmatic Author Who Can Be Addictive |publisher=[[The New York Times]]. nytimes.com |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/books/an-enigmatic-author-who-can-be-addictive.html |date=March 11, 2005 |access-date=March 31, 2018}}</ref>

On September 14, 1966, Lispector suffered a serious accident in her apartment. After taking a sleeping pill, she fell asleep in her bed with a lit cigarette. She was seriously injured and her right hand almost had to be amputated. {{blockquote|text=The fire I suffered a while back partially destroyed my right hand. My legs were marked forever. What happened was very sad and I prefer not to think about it. All I can say is that I spent three days in hell, where—so they say—bad people go after death. I don't consider myself bad and I experienced it while still alive.<ref>Gotlib, p. 368.</ref>}}

The next year, Lispector published her first children's book, ''O Mistério do coelho pensante'' (''The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit'', 1967), a translation of a book she had written in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], in English, for her son Paulo. In August 1967, she began writing a weekly column ("''[[crônica]]''") for the ''[[Jornal do Brasil]]'', an important Rio newspaper, which greatly expanded her fame beyond the intellectual and artistic circles that had long admired her. These pieces were later collected in the posthumous work ''A Descoberta do mundo'' (''The Discovery of the World'', 1984).