s, after describing an episode of great physical and emotional distress,
No, all this is not happening in real facts but rather in the domain of . . . of an art? Yes, of an artifice through which there arises a very delicate reality that comes to exist within me: that transfiguration has happened to me (Lispector, Stream of Life, quoted in Cixous 128).
In The Hour of the Star Rodrigo complains frequently of the manner in which the character forces her existence (and the burden of its expression) on him, and he identifies with her in various ways--including cutting himself off from the world and trying to suffer physically as MacabTa does. He says, in his long series of introductory hesitations, that he is trying to convey her "delicate and shadowy existence" (15). But Rodrigo also fears that "the action of this story will result in my transfiguration into someone else and in my ultimate materialization into an object" (20). The object is, of course, the text and, since Rodrigo is indeed a part of the text, this is an example of the kind of witt
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