I know you liked my comment on you loving Almodovar, but I believe that this time around, you are going to hate me for what I have to say. I LOATHE Clarisse Lispector with ALL MY HEART. It is probably because I was raised learning a more American rhetorical style of writing and that Clarisse does not follow. I have read A Hora da Estrela and Laços de Familia, and I got lost in her thoughts throughout both books. I think she goes on and on about facts that are not really relevant to her narrative and in doing so, she loses her reader. Unfortunately, she breaks ALL the rules we are going to discuss in this course as far as good writing goes. If I were to place her in a writing course at an American university, I would place her in the worst remedial class there is so that she would learn how to write the American way. Sorry for my being so blunt, but that is what I think about her.

Cheers,

Rick