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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
La hora de la estrella es un libro compuesto de distintos fragmentos de texto que Clarice y su secretaria fueron recopilando, y nos cuenta la historia de Macabea, una mujer pobre que se muda a Rio de Janeiro y tiene una vida bastante miserable. Macabea es víctima del sexismo y la pobreza que atravesaba a la sociedad brasileña. Nosotros aprendemos acerca de ella desde los ojos del narrador, Rodrigo.
Rodrigo es sin dudas mi personaje favorito. Me encanta el narrador de esta historia, como se dirige al lector mientras nos cuenta el relato, como el no logra comprender a Macabea y como el duda de si mismo y su imposibilidad de comprender cómo Macabea puede sentirse feliz en la infelicidad que vive (ella no es conciente de su miseria) Cuando estaba buscando cosas de este libro en internet me gustó algo que vi en Wikipedia que dice:
"Rodrigo no es omnipotente o un creador invisible, sino que es un pensador que duda, vacila, y cuestiona su propio trabajo.En ésta y en otras novelas, Lispector pone en duda la habilidad que tiene la ficción de capturar la verdad." Me encantó esto de Clarice y no puedo esperar a leer Agua viva donde leí que ella explora esto aún más.
El final de la historia también me gustó mucho. Es un final bastante triste, pero realista. Concluye la construcción y el desarrollo de Macabea y le muestra al lector como es a veces la vida.
Actualización relectura 2023: Tuve que releer el libro para una materia que estoy cursando en la facu y lo disfruté incluso más que la primera vez qu elo leí. Me encanta la escritura de Clarice, la experimentación que tiene con la escritura y como te acerca a sus personajes sin dejar de recordarte que son una construcción.
Rodrigo es sin dudas mi personaje favorito. Me encanta el narrador de esta historia, como se dirige al lector mientras nos cuenta el relato, como el no logra comprender a Macabea y como el duda de si mismo y su imposibilidad de comprender cómo Macabea puede sentirse feliz en la infelicidad que vive (ella no es conciente de su miseria) Cuando estaba buscando cosas de este libro en internet me gustó algo que vi en Wikipedia que dice:
"Rodrigo no es omnipotente o un creador invisible, sino que es un pensador que duda, vacila, y cuestiona su propio trabajo.En ésta y en otras novelas, Lispector pone en duda la habilidad que tiene la ficción de capturar la verdad." Me encantó esto de Clarice y no puedo esperar a leer Agua viva donde leí que ella explora esto aún más.
El final de la historia también me gustó mucho. Es un final bastante triste, pero realista. Concluye la construcción y el desarrollo de Macabea y le muestra al lector como es a veces la vida.
Actualización relectura 2023: Tuve que releer el libro para una materia que estoy cursando en la facu y lo disfruté incluso más que la primera vez qu elo leí. Me encanta la escritura de Clarice, la experimentación que tiene con la escritura y como te acerca a sus personajes sin dejar de recordarte que son una construcción.
This is my first read from Lispector and all I can say is wow.
I honestly did not know where this novel would lead me, but I’m glad that I took the path anyway. I feel that this writing style is a first for me as well, having the narrator interjecting himself throughout and letting us hear inside his mind.
I read from another friend’s review and the translator’s note that this narrator, Rodrigo S.M., may as well be Lispector. Finding out more about her as I read and noticing this line from Rodrigo—
“I see the northeastern girl looking in the mirror and — a ruffle of the drum — in the mirror appears my weary and unshaven face.”
Rodrigo made me …slightly infuriated with interjections, but I digress and continued on with my reading— since we know who he seems to be (which I’m sorry! but I did end up finding out and became less picky about it).
I… heavily sympathized with Macabéa and felt so much for her during this read. The way she spoke, the way she was, the way she thought of herself (but not at all).
My favorite part of this novel was Macabéa dancing all alone. A feeling that most of us do anyway, but to her…it felt so different.
“She danced and twirled because being alone made her: f-r-e-e!”
“She owed nothing to anyone and no one owed her a thing.”
I highlighted quite a few parts of this novel and I’m just going to paste them since this review is just me rambling anyway.
“She was used to forgetting about herself. She never broke her habits, she was afraid of inventing.”
This quote… after revealing herself (her thoughts) to Olímpico. THE ONLY TIME SHE DID THIS AND HE UPSET ME SO MUCH! THIS MAN MADE ME WANT TO SCREAM! Crybaby.
I made this a spoiler, so I can speak about it..but I cried. Oh man! Okay! She cries again! Sue me! You mean to tell me I have to deal with the narrator telling me she might live and then decide to kill her anyway.
Miserable life and a miserable death. I was on autopilot as I read this snippet, so I had to go back and read because I did not know that what happened..had just happened?
“Then it started to drizzle lightly. Olímpico was right: all she was really good for was raining.”
This part made me smack the table and sigh because of what he mentioned before. IT HURT ME. Genuinely I am upset again and again.
After this …reveal, we are told by the narrator that he also died with “the girl.”
Lastly, the novel begins with a yes and ends with a yes. Symbolic!
I honestly did not know where this novel would lead me, but I’m glad that I took the path anyway. I feel that this writing style is a first for me as well, having the narrator interjecting himself throughout and letting us hear inside his mind.
I read from another friend’s review and the translator’s note that this narrator, Rodrigo S.M., may as well be Lispector. Finding out more about her as I read and noticing this line from Rodrigo—
“I see the northeastern girl looking in the mirror and — a ruffle of the drum — in the mirror appears my weary and unshaven face.”
Rodrigo made me …slightly infuriated with interjections, but I digress and continued on with my reading— since we know who he seems to be (which I’m sorry! but I did end up finding out and became less picky about it).
I… heavily sympathized with Macabéa and felt so much for her during this read. The way she spoke, the way she was, the way she thought of herself (but not at all).
My favorite part of this novel was Macabéa dancing all alone. A feeling that most of us do anyway, but to her…it felt so different.
“She danced and twirled because being alone made her: f-r-e-e!”
“She owed nothing to anyone and no one owed her a thing.”
I highlighted quite a few parts of this novel and I’m just going to paste them since this review is just me rambling anyway.
“She was used to forgetting about herself. She never broke her habits, she was afraid of inventing.”
This quote… after revealing herself (her thoughts) to Olímpico. THE ONLY TIME SHE DID THIS AND HE UPSET ME SO MUCH! THIS MAN MADE ME WANT TO SCREAM! Crybaby.
I made this a spoiler, so I can speak about it..but I cried. Oh man! Okay! She cries again! Sue me! You mean to tell me I have to deal with the narrator telling me she might live and then decide to kill her anyway.
Miserable life and a miserable death. I was on autopilot as I read this snippet, so I had to go back and read because I did not know that what happened..had just happened?
“Then it started to drizzle lightly. Olímpico was right: all she was really good for was raining.”
This part made me smack the table and sigh because of what he mentioned before. IT HURT ME. Genuinely I am upset again and again.
After this …reveal, we are told by the narrator that he also died with “the girl.”
Lastly, the novel begins with a yes and ends with a yes. Symbolic!
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
strange and bewildering and convoluted, without being suffocating. lispector's prose is unique and gorgeous and so delicious to get through, as always, and it's maybe this aspect that draws you in from the very beginning. i think i will have to come back to this, because i'm sure certain things have gone over my head, but it was a gorgeous, albeit uncomfortable read at times. it is, at its core, a story about nothingness, but lispector masterfully points out how in that nothingness there is still something, that even a void is something, that even our central character, macabéa, who is no one, is still someone. i found the narrator grating, but still interesting to have him detailing macabéa's existence, he who thinks of himself in contrast to our protagonist, as he is "something", someone who has a lot to say and write, without managing to find his words, and ranting and blustering and losing his thread.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
escrita completamente característica, demora um pouco pra centrar na história central e esse começo me frustrou um pouco.
mas a descrição da personagem Macabeia poderia ter sido feita de maneira muito rasa mas, na minha opinião, desviou um pouco disso.
muito bom!!
mas a descrição da personagem Macabeia poderia ter sido feita de maneira muito rasa mas, na minha opinião, desviou um pouco disso.
muito bom!!
challenging
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A highly original premise but truthfully I think Lispector’s prose is just not for me