Clarice Lispector The Hour of the Star (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Hour of the StarCondition: NewSubtitle: 100th Anniversary EditionISBN-10: 081123004XEAN: 9780811230049ISBN: 9780811230049Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/20/2020Description: 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-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, Macabéa is inwardly free. She doesn’t seem to know how unhappy she should be. As Macabéa 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 213mmItem Length: 137mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 223gAuthor: Clarice LispectorTranslator: Benjamin MoserContributor: Colm Tóibín (Introduction by), Benjamin Moser (Translated by), Paulo Gurgel Valente (Afterword by)Genre: FictionRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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