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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