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Week 8: Clarice Lispector’s “The Hour of the Star”

Hey guys! For this week, I read The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. The story revolves around Macabéa, a poor and uneducated young woman from northeastern Brazil who moves to Rio de Janeiro for a better life. Macabéa works as a typist and lives simply without luxuries or meaningful relationships. However, while I […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Clarice Lispector, death, existence, hope, identity, loneliness, morality, poverty

The Hour of the Star, starring Macabéa, the Typist, Virgin, and Coca-Cola Fan. Et tu brute?!

“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 […]

Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with death, desire, existence, explosion, humanity, identity, individuality, isolation, life, nothingness, Philosophy

What Would You Think If You Had An Encounter With A Violent Mercedes?

Trigger Warning: Mentions of death and poverty Cover is painting “Not Too Bad (Blue)” by Artist Euan Roberts “Who hasn’t ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?” Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star, pg 7 (Book analysis begins at paragraph 2. Feel free to skip […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with existence, Existentialism, perception, Philosophy, poverty, Subjectiveness, Suffering

Welcome to the Roast of Macabéa (The Hour of the Star) – Clarice Lispector

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 […]

Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with Brazil, Clarice Lispector, existence, identity, Macabea, Personal Growth, Philsophy, poverty, Roast, romance, society, women

blog#7 – a woman and her Cockroach —

blog#7 – a woman and her Cockroach — Reading The Passion According to G.H. was one of the closest moments that I felt like I was reading a well-composed transcript of my own thoughts. The way the Clarice Lispector seamlessly yet abruptly changes from concept to concept is mind-bogglingly impressive – all the while articulating […]

Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with 4th wall, agency, anxiety, Brazil, cockroach, death, divinity, existence, human, life, maid, monologue, neutral, Rio, The Passion According to G. H, time, Womanhood

blog#3 – Paris Peasant: Blonde Spring

I loved reading Paris Peasant. It was everything it was described as: “a-novel-that-was-not-a-novel”, a character study, a portrait, part-fiction, part-treatise, part-memoir. I did wonder beforehand how a novel could encompass all of these things and still be balanced and enjoyable, yet it did all these things and more. For a few moments during my reading, […]

Posted in Aragon, Blogs | Tagged with blond, certainty, divinity, existence, natural senses, reason, spring, will

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