What a nice and short book this week :)) “The Hour of The Star” by Clairice Lispector was very interesting for me to read. Although at times I did not understand the experimental writing style of the book, it very quickly became the highlight of this reading for me. It felt a lot like the […]
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Hey everyone! I just finished reading “The Hour of the Star” by Clarice Lispector which was a great read that explored many different themes we have discussed previously in class. The story revolves around Macabea, a young woman from northeastern Brazil, whose life is explained through the eyes of the narrator, Rodrigo S.M. This format […]
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So, let’s talk about “The Hour of the Star,”. It centres around Macabéa. She’s from the northeast of Brazil and moves to Rio de Janeiro. Macabéa’s life is… tough, for a lack of better words. She’’s a bit of a wallflower. She barely makes ends meet with her job as a typist, and is often […]
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I’ll start by pointing out that I felt awful for laughing so hard while reading this book. This book was an unusual metafiction that is possibly my favourite novel to date. The beginning of the story felt like having a conversation with the author, who occasionally experienced identity crises. It was fascinating to read her […]
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“But who am I to rebuke the guilty? The worst part is that I have to forgive them. We must reach such a nothing that we indifferently love or don’t love the criminal who kills us. But I’m not so sure of myself: I have to ask, though I don’t know who can answer, if […]
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At first, Lispector’s The Hour of the Star confused me a little bit because the “author” was writing as he was thinking which tripped me out. But as I read more of it, it became normal that there was an author that acted as another character in th…
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At first, Lispector’s The Hour of the Star confused me a little bit because the “author” was writing as he was thinking which tripped me out. But as I read more of it, it became normal that there was an author that acted as another character in th…
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Hey folks, I’m back yet again to talk a bit about this week’s book The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. Overall, I quite liked the book and found the story part fairly straightforward to follow. That being said, the narrator confused me quite a bit. The book has a narrator (Rodrigo S.M.) who […]
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I am so excited for this week! I had actually already read this novel when I took a Latin American literature class with Jon last year and since then, I’ve basically forced a lot of my friends and family to read it. It’s one of my favourite books and I…
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