6/10/2023 0 Comments The hour of the star![]() An engaging puppet-puppeteer dynamic ensues as Rodrigo S.M. It is a multi-faceted narrative which not only concerns itself with the life of the protagonist, but also the life of her creator, her god, her author. Her previous novels The Passion of GH and Breath of Life were a stream of consciousness style, but Hour of the Star was less so. Perhaps most striking about this book, other than its unique protagonist, is its intriguing metafictional structure. ![]() But it is for this reason that for me she quickly became one of literature’s most loveable anti-heroines. She is the ultimate victim of life, bordering the distinction between simply existing by ‘inhaling and exhaling’ and really living. She is conceived as a non-entity living on the cusp of existence and her stupidity prevents her from being aware of the sadness the world dictates she should feel for her poverty-stricken life, her failure in relationships and her non-existent self-esteem. The novel follows Macabéa, a young impoverished girl facing a difficult life in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. ![]() Translated from the Portuguese original, this short novel encompasses the essence of the postmodern genre and should be a staple read on any world literature syllabus. ![]() Despite being her last novel, Hour of the Star was the first I read, and I was surprised and captivated by its strange, haunting and thought-provoking style. Born in the Ukraine in the 1920s, Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. ![]()
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