![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() claims that he was inspired to write this story when he saw a girl on a street in Rio de Janeiro with a “glimpse of perdition” on her face. writes, “If there is any truth in it-and clearly the story is true even though invented-let everyone see it reflected in himself for we are all one and the same person.” Rodrigo S.M.’s words are the only lens through which the reader views Macabéa. He declares that it takes great effort for him to achieve simplicity in his writing and that the material he is writing about is “mundane” and the details of his characters are “sparse.” Yet, Rodrigo S.M. He opens the novel with an extended discussion about the act of writing a story. addresses the reader directly in The Hour of the Star. Both the story’s narrator, Rodrigo S.M., and Macabéa struggle to find themselves and answer the question, “Who am I?” Cultured and worldly, Rodrigo S.M. The Hour of the Star explores issues of sexism and poverty and raises philosophical questions about the nature of existence and the formation of identity as it follows the life of “pathetic” Macabéa in the slums of Rio. The book’s eight brief chapters were compiled by Lispector and her friend and assistant, Olga Borelli, from notes Lispector had written on scraps of paper. Lispector drew on personal experiences from her childhood in northeast Brazil as well as her life in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian author Clarice Lispector’s novel The Hour of the Star ( A Hora da Estrela) was published shortly before her death in 1977. ![]()
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