" The Hour of the Star " is a playful novel published in the late 1970s, during the last years of Clarice Lispector's life. Macabéa, the main character, is an ordinary outcast. She is a foolish, ugly, and impoverished girl from the Brazilian northeast. Thanks to her foolishness, she succeeds in living a relatively happy life, somewhat full of mundane joy. One may be tempted to begin the previous sentence with "despite her foolishness" instead of "thanks to her...," but that would be wrong. It is her overarching simplicity and void of thoughts that relieve her of the daily struggle. But above all, Macabéa is just a creation in the mind of the writer. Throughout the short novel, we can observe a stream of consciousness that displays the interaction between the one who writes the story, its object, and the narrative. It is a rare phenomenon that inspires us to think about fundamental questions of literature. The subjective character of any writing does