Description: The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabea, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabea is inwardly free. She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. As Macabea heads toward her absurd death, Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator-edge of despair to edge of despair-and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader's preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love, and the art of fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.
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EAN: 9780811230049
UPC: 9780811230049
ISBN: 9780811230049
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Book Title: Hour of the Star : 100th Anniversary Edition
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Topic: Hispanic & Latino, Jewish
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 8.1 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Clarice Lispector
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Hardcover