Writing and culture in Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star

Abstract

This essay analyzes some aspects of the construction of the novel A Hora da Estrela (The Hour of the Star), by Clarice Lispector, such as elements of culture, marks of reading, speaking, and mass culture in the work. Also, it analyzes the writing of the novel through the point of view of the narrator Rodrigo S. M. The representation of the female character Macabea is done by searching for the lapidary and rational writing, as an attempt to build up the appropriate writing for the configuration of such effaced, obfuscated, female figure, whose suffering establishes a silent space of pain. Besides that, it will be analyzed some intertextual references in the work.