Hello Everyone, welcome back to the blog. The read for this week is The Hour of The Star by Clarice Lispector. It tells the tale of Macabéa, a woman from northeastern Brazil living in Rio de Janeiro. From any outside perspective Macabéa’s life is not an enviable one – she doesn’t have any real friends, […]
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This week’s reading was titled ‘The Hour of the Star’ by Clarice Lispector and was definitely an interesting read. I found myself very lost in the opening pages, and a little unexcited about the rest of the book, I think largely in part that seemed to be a lot of writing about more abstract concepts […]
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I loved how unique this book felt. It was like a story within a story filled with such rich thoughts and complex characters. To me, it was more about the characters than the actual plot. The narrator is literally talking to us. explaining how the book will go. It is such an interesting start to […]
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After finishing the book, I was left with the internal question of “What did I just read?” And then I looked up the author, and it started to make more sense. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector is yet another book that dives into the themes of identity, the search for meaning, and […]
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Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H.
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