LAW AND LITERATURE: PERSONALITY RIGHTS IN CLARISSE LISPECTOR'S "THE HOUR OF THE STAR"

This scientific essay examines The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector, through the lens of personality rights, exploring how the literary narrative exposes the structural limitations of this legal category. The analysis departs from the protagonist Macabéa’s erasure of identity, whose symbolic and social non-existence reveals the fragility of normative mechanisms of recognition. The research adopts a deductive method, with an exploratory, descriptive, and multidisciplinary nature, integrating the fields of law, philosophy, and literature. Methodological procedures include a bibliographic review of secondary data sources, comprising literary works and academic scholarship. Data analysis is conducted through a hermeneutic approach, with emphasis on legal and literary hermeneutics, enabling a critical interpretation of the normative meaning of legal personality in light of the narrated experience. It is concluded that The Hour of the Star not only portrays the dissolution of an identity, but also critically challenges the very structure of personality rights, revealing that their functionality depends equally on the inclusion and exclusion of certain subjects from the realm of legal visibility.