marinetucker 's review for:

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

4.0

challenging reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A meditation on how life's supposed to go, what it means to do enough, and why being a writer makes you such an asshole. Lispector takes on the voice of a self-obsessed male writer trying (and failing) to write a female character, but that wildly funny and unique roundabout genderpol is never the foreground--the writer's own pompous thoughts on loss and life, and the female character's truth boiling through the dozen carny narrative filters, is.