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” by Clarice Lispector is a book following the protagonist, known only as “the Inspector,” as he moves through his life. This book was one I did not particularly love but at the same time, I didn’t hate it either. I was a bit confused at the beginning as to how this story is written and the relationship to the protagonists. One theme in the book that I think was large was existentialism. This text delves into ideas like the meaning of life and existence but…read more
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Clarice Lispector’s novel, “The Hour of the Star,” tells the story of a poor and uneducated “northeastern girl” in a raw and haunting style of writing. In the beginning, I was quite confused about what the story was about as there wasn’t really a plotline, it was more just following the thoughts and emotions of […]
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The complex and mysterious novella “The Hour of the Star” by Clarice Lispector explores existentialism, identity, and the human predicament. The narrative centers on Macabéa, a young, nondescript woman from Rio de Janeiro’s slums. It’s the shortest novel I’ve read so far in this course, I think. It is said of Macabéa that she is […]
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“The Hour of the Star,” to use “Gen Z” terms is a book full of “yapping” but in my opinion good and insightful yapping. With a book of many titles Lispector gives a very unique experience to the reader as she writes about an author writing about a girl, named half way through the book, …
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The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector is the shortest novella I’ve read, and I thought it was unique, but also weird. In this story, there are two narrative storylines, the first line is the narration from Rodrigo S.M.’s point of view. Rodrigo S.M. is a male writer who seems to be bored with life […]
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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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The novel ‘The Hour of the Star is a bit different from all the other novels that I have read in this course so far or even the ones that I have read apart from this course. This novel brought out a mix of emotions for me as neither did I like nor dislike this […]
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I loved this book so much, and I will have to read the next ones. I can’t be left in such a cliffhanger! Of course, this book is an coming of age story, a common theme in the course. It takes us on a journey where we can see how a small neighborhood in Italy […]
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