A nordestina como objeto estético

Abstract

This essay intends to underline the internal movements (according Auerbach’s concept) in Clarice Lispector’s novel A Hora da Estrela (1977), in order to highlight its importance in the construction and revelation of its narrator and character Rodrigo S.M., as well as to analyse the broadening of the inner consciousness of the characters as part of the narrative in which we observe a fusion between Macabea and Rodrigo S.M., characters symmetrically woven throughout the narrative, as if their emergence in the literary construction would only reveal to us a reality so evidently hard that we pretend to be hidden. In first edition’s preface, from 1977, the literary critic Eduardo Portela in presenting Macabea emphasizes that “The Alagoa’s girl is a collective noun. The loss, emptiness, hollowness are metaphorical instances of historical interdiction” (2017, p. 212). This fact was received by critics as a novelty in Clarice’s writing and it helped perceive in this work a more intense social engagement than in her previous books.