#2 The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
A short final novel by Clarice, I failed to put her in The Group list, but she is so in there, she's a breathe of fresh air, I saw in the Introduction to this slim volume that she was an anti-literary sort, the opposite of Samuel Johnson, and therefore a most necessary part of The Group. By "literary" I mean by going all head over heels over the great literary people of the past, she rather invents a whole new way of writing, showing the inner beings of her characters.
Against my initial wish to go through her oeuvre in chronological order, I want to encounter one of her best, and since I had already read The Passion According to GH, this made perfect sense.
It's written from the perspective of a boy, or young man in Brazil, and he writes about the tragic life of a girl he's spellbound with.
Here's a review of it in conversational form
[media=https://youtu.be/qlTHJw_fkuA]
Against my initial wish to go through her oeuvre in chronological order, I want to encounter one of her best, and since I had already read The Passion According to GH, this made perfect sense.
It's written from the perspective of a boy, or young man in Brazil, and he writes about the tragic life of a girl he's spellbound with.
Here's a review of it in conversational form
[media=https://youtu.be/qlTHJw_fkuA]
46-50, M