The Star
(Clarice Lispector)
Thisis the last romance of Clarice Lispector, the end point of a career that, initiated in 1944, with Close to the Wild Heart, constituted one of the moments highest of modern Brazilian literature. The author presents an impressive drama where, surprising, the springs of the action have nature and social inspiration. The feminine personage is described with great lyricism and, under its traces northeasterns of ingenuous woman, a Biblical counterpoint is delineated all. When Macabéa if sees gives to carry through its great dream of woman, crossing a street of the metropolis (nothing Biblical),suddenly finds the death in the speed of an automobile. The lyric tone of the narrative if dyes tragedy at last. The style, in contrast of most of previous books of the author, is marked by a concern narrative of more objective character, pointing out the personage in its habits, its social space, its romantic world. Published two months before the death of its author, these ?story of fairies crossed" at the same time that the ?weak life? of Macabéa registers, composing an "exterior?, ?explicit? narrative ?, also questions, ironyze and displays the interrogations of the fiction contemporary, through a author-narrator, Rodrigo S.M., that it intends to catch in the ?feeling offear of the face of a northeastern?, seen to perhaps in a street of Rio De Janeiro, the ?primary life, that breathes, breathes, breathes?. Tormented for the personage who created, but that it does not know completely, the narrator beats, at every moment, in the differences of social class and sort and, particularly, in the possibilities and limitations of the language, in the ?agony? of the act to write and in the word that restores, discloses and hides. In 1985, The Hour of the Star was adapted for the cinema, resulting in the awardee has the same filmed of heading, directed for Susana Amaral.
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