In many of her narratives, Clarice Lispector proposes a reflection on writing itself. Perhaps the most eloquent example is Água Viva, which presents itself as a text in flux, a text that folds upon itself by all the time referring to its own construction. For Clarice, writing is thinking, but also inscription – as if it hurt matter. There is something bodily about the clash with words. Therefore, when writing, she tries to do it “with my body” – an expression that she uses both in Água Viva and in The Hour of the Star. The narrator of the former notes: “I want to grab the word in my hand.” And Rodrigo S.M., from The Hour of the Star, affirms that writing is “as hard as breaking rocks.”