ABSTRACT
The Passion according to G.H. is one of the texts most commented on by specialized critics. Since it is a classic text, that is, a book that can be read by each new generation from new entries, the present work attempts a reading of Clarice Lispector’s work from some concepts belonging to geology. First of all, it will be shown the importance of noon as the frame of the metamorphosis through which G.H. goes through, since noon is the instant that produces the cave where her transformation will take place. Then, the significance of deep time and its relation to the destitution, read here as desedimentation of the human figure, will be addressed. At this point, G.H.’s inversion of Plato’s cave myth, an inversion that represents a radical critique of metaphysical thought and its linearity, will also be addressed. Finally, the reading carried out will lead to the question of the materiality on which the very book one has been reading is written, sculpted, as if it were a sculpture, by G.H.’s own hands.
KEYWORDS:
geology; cave; noon; desedimentation; human; materiality