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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“She believed in angels, and because she believed in them, they existed.” What an uncomfortable, weird, interesting, and strangely poetic story about a girl who just was. Her own perspective on her life—combined with her overall naïveté—created an extremely sad yet endearing character. Coupled with the way the narrator discussed her, it was a truly heartbreaking read.
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Clarice lispector might be my favorite author of all time yet to read a single bad thing from her
That not-knowing might seem awful but it’s not that bad because she knew lots of things in the way nobody teaches a dog to wag his tail or a person to feel hungry; you’re born and you just know. Just as nobody one day would teach her how to die: yet she’d surely die one day as if she’d learned the starring role by heart. For at the hour of death a person becomes a shining movie star, it’s everyone’s moment of glory and it’s when as in choral chanting you hear the whooshing shrieks.
How is it that Lispector captures the terrifying immediacy of Being without mannered elegance, knowing irony, wilful erudition — how is it possible to write truth as she does, as a pure evocation, without motive? Somehow she writes Modernist literature without the baggage. She’s just brilliant. Her writing almost shouldn’t exist.
How is it that Lispector captures the terrifying immediacy of Being without mannered elegance, knowing irony, wilful erudition — how is it possible to write truth as she does, as a pure evocation, without motive? Somehow she writes Modernist literature without the baggage. She’s just brilliant. Her writing almost shouldn’t exist.
4.5
The Hour of the Star is about Macabéa, a young, naïve, impoverished, doomed girl living in the slums of Brazil who only gets a taste of the real world and a glimpse into passion & hope before she ultimately dies. If I go on to describe her plight I will be simply eulogizing the character and I’ll never do it half as eloquently as Lispector's narrator. This is such an intimate look at poverty in Brazil and I could tell the author knew this life well. As an appreciator of tragedy and a good angsty soliloquy I really loved this !!
The Hour of the Star is about Macabéa, a young, naïve, impoverished, doomed girl living in the slums of Brazil who only gets a taste of the real world and a glimpse into passion & hope before she ultimately dies. If I go on to describe her plight I will be simply eulogizing the character and I’ll never do it half as eloquently as Lispector's narrator. This is such an intimate look at poverty in Brazil and I could tell the author knew this life well. As an appreciator of tragedy and a good angsty soliloquy I really loved this !!
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes