00:00:00Introduction
00:02:50About Clarice Lispector
00:06:30Character: Rodrigo S.M.
00:15:12Character: Macabéa
00:17:10Meaning-Making
00:26:48Inner Poverty
00:31:55Camus' Absurd
00:39:18Life Is Absurd
00:43:35On Meaning
00:46:44Outro
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What happens if meaning only arrives at the same moment it becomes impossible? That's the terrifying question at the core of Hour of the Star, the last masterpiece of Brazilian author, Clarice Lispector. Let's get this book undone.
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