Hi, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well. When I started this novel, I thought it would be just an ordinary story. As I started reading it, I thought it might be about this man who gets on a train on a winter’s night and stops at places w…
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino was at first one of the most confusing and frusturating reads I’ve ever experienced but after awhile actually become very enjoyable and interesting. After reading the author’s note, it should’ve been my first sign that this writing style was going to be something new and […]
“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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Mid-course Update We’ve had ~7 weeks of readings by now. I feel like this class is the one thing that’s keeping my brain intellectually stimulated because I usually just consume random media outside of school. For example, these past few weeks I’ve been watching the bachelor and it’s been sooo much fun, but I always … Continue reading Hour of the Star: Nonhaving or Having? (March 5)
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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…
Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with death, life, poverty
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…
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…
The Hour of the Star is not your ordinary novel but regardless, I didn’t mind reading it. No one in Macabéa’s life, including the writer of her story, was very kind to her. I kept forgetting that the author was supposedly in love with her because often he would say very mean things about her […]
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