A review by tumblehawk
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

4.0

Such a weird little novella. I don’t usually begin my relationship to an author by reading their final work, but I did with Clarice Lispector. Not sure I always understood what was happening or why, but enjoyed it all the way through nonetheless. This was a fun slim but dense story to read in one sitting. It’s a narrator telling the story of a girl, but he’s also constantly reflecting on the idea of storytelling, openly making it up as he goes along, reflecting on how tired he is of telling the story. It feels like a roughly slapped together hastily improvised story but you can tell that the real writer behind the narrator, Lispector herself, is in complete control. Fun.