A Portrait of Neglect, abuse and exploitation: "Hour of The Star"
This book is utter confusion. At the first half of the book, I was super confused about what I was even reading. I could barely make out the situations that were being described in the book in my head and just couldn't grasp what the book was even talking about. There were times where the author (Lispector) wrote herself into the story which made it difficult to understand who's perspective I was reading as she would just rant about Macabea and her thoughts and suddenly come back to the story. Reading it was pretty depressing but, I was trying to empathize why she became the way she did. Macabea's life story felt like she was a side character to her own story. Her life is marked by a series of mundane routines and chance encounters, each seemingly devoid of significance. Both her parents passed away pretty early on in her life and her aunt raised her throughout her childhood. She became a symbol of oppression and abuse in Macabea's life shaping how she thought even wh...