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Clarice Lispector The Hour of the Star (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Hour of the Star : 100th Anniversary Edition
- Publication Name
- The Hour of the Star
- Title
- The Hour of the Star
- Subtitle
- 100th Anniversary Edition
- Translator
- Benjamin Moser
- Contributor
- Paulo Gurgel Valente (Afterword by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 081123004X
- EAN
- 9780811230049
- ISBN
- 9780811230049
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 20/11/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 7.8 Oz
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Topic
- Hispanic & Latino
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
081123004x
ISBN-13
9780811230049
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038420735
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hour of the Star : 100th Anniversary Edition
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Hispanic & Latino
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq9697.L585h6713
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Every page vibrates with feeling. It's not enough to say that Lispector bends language or uses words in new ways. Plenty of modernists do that. No one else writes prose this rich., I'm really obsessed by this writer from Brazil, Clarice Lispector. I love her because she writes whole novels where not one thing happens--she describes the air. I think she's such a great, great novelist., This new translation of The Hour of the Star reveals the mesmerizing force of the revitalized modernist's Rio-set tale of a young naif, who, along with the piquantly intrusive narrator, challenges the reader's notions of identity, storytelling, and love., Sphinx, sorceress, sacred monster. The revival of the hypnotic Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the twenty-first century., Most late work has a spectral beauty, a sense of form and content dancing a slow and skillful waltz with each other. Lispector, on the other hand, as she came to the end of her life, wrote as though her life was beginning, with a sense of a need to stir and shake narrative itself to see where it might take her, as the bewildered and original writer that she was, and us, her bewildered and excited readers.
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Afterword by
Valente, Paulo Gurgel
Lccn
2020-028448
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