How long does it take to read The Passion According to G.H?
The Passion According to G.H by Clarice Lispector takes about 3 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1964. 213 pages, about 58,575 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector's mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door - crushing the cockroach - and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature.... Lispector wrote that of all her works, this novel was the one that "best corresponded to her demands as a writer."
Subjects: Romance, Fiction, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Fiction, general, Women
