The Hour of the Star - 100th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2020
Authors:	Clarice Lispector
Translators:	Benjamin Moser
Afterword by:	Paulo Gurgel Valente
Introduction by:	Colm Toibin
Dimensions:	211 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-3004-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8112-3004-X
Barcode:	9780811230049

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