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Hour of the Star
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Hour of the Star
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved.
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Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics.
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved.
Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabea's fate but comes to realise that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free.
Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love, and the art of writing itself, Clarice Lispector's audacious last novel is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world.
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Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's last novel, is often regarded as her finest work. It is described as a mesmerizing and searing narrative, showcasing her unparalleled literary prowess. Critics across various platforms have praised it as a significant and profound contribution to literature.
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ISBN: 9780141392035
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 February 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Benjamin Moser
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 5.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 78g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Clarice Lispector (Author) Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Gra a Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star. Benjamin Moser (Translator) Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World- A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. His work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence was recognized with Brazil's State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. His most recent book, Sontag- Her Life, won the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Utrecht, in the central Netherlands.
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