Leandro Karnal is a Brazilian historian, professor, and one of the country's most recognized communicators. He worked as a university lecturer and became a public reference in the debate on history, philosophy, ethics, and the humanities, with a constant presence on television, podcasts, and lectures.
His reading list reveals a profile oriented toward the great classics of Western literature. Among those recommended are The Divine Comedy, by Dante, Don Quixote, by Cervantes, and Hamlet, by Shakespeare — foundational works of the European literary tradition. The choice of The Passion According to G.H., by Clarice Lispector, also points to introspective and philosophical Brazilian prose. The set shows someone whose curation favors works that interrogate the meaning of existence, human suffering, and moral condition — central themes in his career as a public thinker.
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Passion According to G. H
”When I discovered and understood The Passion According to G.H., almost 20 years ago, I cried a great deal over the beauty of the writing, and over the tormented writer pouring out her genius and her pain onto those pages. I cried over that difficult portrait of the human soul.”