Mito e paródia em a hora da estrela: ressonâncias de tradições secularizadas

Abstract

This thesis, contributing to Literary Studies, approaches Clarice Lispector to the Jewish tradition, more precisely to the one linked to the interpretation of sacred texts, resorting mainly to A hora da estrela (The Hour of the Star), the last book she published while still living. It does so by recuperating, in this literary work, the presence of mythical accounts from the Judeo-Christian Scriptures, showing that these accounts have been recaptured and updated with the help of parody. In order to do so, works of Nelson Vieira, Nádia Battella Gotlib and Berta Waldman (on the production of Brazilian-Jewish writers), Mircea Eliade (on myth) and Linda Hutcheon (on parody) have been used as main theoretical reference sources. The methodology used was the qualitative-interpretative one, based on descriptive and comparative analyses of literary and theoretical texts. It has been evidenced, within A hora da estrela, Lispector‘s approximation to multiple cultural traditions, mainly the Jewish one, which she used to hide when questioned about this subject.