Specularity: transcending language in Clarice Lispector’s A hora da estrela

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María José Jorquera Hervás

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The events that take place in Clarice Lispector’s A hora da estrela (1977) seem to be metaphorically reflected in a mirror. In this study, then, I identify the mirror as the trope through which we read Lispector’s novel, and its film adaptation by Suzana Amaral (1986), to observe how the ambivalence of meanings is articulated. By analyzing a selection of images in the film production, I examine their correspondence in the novel and how they mirror each other, to offer conclusions at a semantic level that may reveal complex historical and political issues. Some of the questions addressed in this study are: How does the transfer of medium, from literature to visual arts, add meaning to the narrative? How does this approach contribute to the conversation between post-structuralism and Brazilian literary movements of social and cultural commitment? How can the idea of specularity problematize Lispector’s role as an intellectual?

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Specularity: transcending language in Clarice Lispector’s A hora da estrela. (2024). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 10(9), 81-99. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2024.4559