Hi everyone! This week I read Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. I really did not understand this book at first, it felt kind of pointless and so I did not enjoy it. It discusses themes of life, death, love and meaning. I would like to spend my blog post discussing the ending of […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with death, life, meaning
This week’s reading was much better than the last one in my opinion. I found it easier to follow along but also extremely entertaining. I want to share my favourite paragraph from the reading. “I seemed to see her outside of time and space, on a dark, dry plain,with a sky so blue it was […]
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I initially started reading this text before watching the lecture – a mistake on my part. Prior to watching the lecture, the text didn’t make much sense to me, it was vague and ambiguous and I felt as though I was missing context. After watching the lecture and learning that Manea had written this text […]
Posted in Blogs, Manea | Tagged with censorship, meaning, Symbolism
