"The Hour of the Star" or Clarice Lispector's Trash Hour

that ended with her death in December 1 977, A Horn da Estrela ( The Hour of the Star) is part of a group of texts by Clarice Lispector that not only make up her final body of work but also stage the end, depicting it as dissolution.The end of a life, the end of a career, the end of an oeuvre.This was a phase in Lispector's writing that she referred to as "trash time" in her reply to criticism of her collection of short stories A Via-crucis do Corpo (1974). 1 Hour of the star, trash time.Via-crucis had been criticized for the sketchy nature of the narratives and for the author's allegedly blunt approach to sexual themes.Trash time, death time.The death of Macabea, the very reverse of a movie star, a nontragic character, the protagonist of a non-life that culminates when she is run over by a car at the end, the caricature of a banal apocalypse.Physical death of the author, who may have been aware of her illness by the time she began writing A Hora da Estrela.Lispector's "trash time" covers a relatively short period in her career, and includes her final writings following Agua Viva (1973).It is no more than a further step in the radicalization of a writer who had from the very beginning been labeled radical or idiosyncratic by all of the canonic tendencies in Brazilian literary criticism.The radical aspect of the texts of the "trash time" phase is closely associated with Agua Viva.They are all part of the same aesthetic gesture, the development of an interplay between the sublime and desublimation.While Agua Viva can still be read in terms of the feminine sublime, associated with the valorization of the sublime activities of painting and/or writing, which were already prominent features of the author's first