ISBN 9780811211901 | 0811211908 Textbooks - "The Hour of the Star New Directions Paperbook" by Clarice Lispector Lispector Clarice Clarice Lispector TranslatorGiovanni Pontiero

Authors: Clarice Lispector - Lispector - Clarice - Clarice Lispector; Translator-Giovanni Pontiero
ISBN 10: 0811211908
ISBN 13: 9780811211901
Edition: Reissue
Release: February 17, 1992
Format: Paperback (96 pages)
List Price: $9.95
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Tags: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary,

Book 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 Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, 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, Macabéa is inwardly free/She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. 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 leave us deep in Lispector territory indeed.

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The Hour of the Star (New Directions Paperbook)