La angustia en Macabea: una lectura heideggeriana de La hora de la estrella de Clarice Lispector

Paloma Souto

Authors

Paloma Souto Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Humanidades

Keywords:

Clarice Lispector, The hour of the star, anguish, existentialism, Martin Heidegger

Abstract

The Hour of the Star (1977) is the last text of Clarice Lispector’s life (Chechelnik, Ukraine, 1920 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1977) on the basis of which we aim to analyze anguish as a philosophical issue through Macabea’s character, the protagonist of the novel written by the narrator, pictured as a girl incapable of living in this world. It is by means of Martin Heidegger's conception of anguish that we acknowledge, in the configuration of the main character, an (existential) courage towards the world and narrative, while we notice the presence of nothingness as a preamble to the feeling of anguish, where, based on our hypothesis, the girl lives in almost constantly. Consequently, Macabea, as a human existant (dasein), is devoured by the world, fallen into infinite possibilities that inhabit the unforeseen and culminate in facts; all of which allow us, from a Heideggerian approach, to read towards the end of the text, upon her death, the possibility that inhabits in all possible possibilities and the fundamental imprint of her existence.

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