An edition of A Hora da Estrela (1977)

The hour of the star

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An edition of A Hora da Estrela (1977)

The hour of the star

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  • ★★★★ 4.2 (12 ratings) ·
  • 146 Want to read
  • 10 Currently reading
  • 25 Have read

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-Colas, 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. 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 leave us deep in Lispector territory indeed.

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New Directions Pub. Corp.
Language
English
Pages
96

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Subjects

Fiction, psychological, Rio de janeiro (brazil), fiction, Fiction, Brazil, Macabea, Rio de Janeiro, Fiction, general, Romance literature, Romance brasileiro, Fiction, women, Fiction, hispanic & latino

People

Macabea, Clarice Lispector

Places

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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1992, New Directions Pub. Corp.
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Edition Notes

Translation of: A hora da estrela.

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New York
Series
New Directions paperbook ;

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
869.3
Library of Congress
PQ9697.L585 H6713 1992, PQ9697.L585H6713

The Physical Object

Pagination
96 p. ;
Number of pages
96

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1550308M
Internet Archive
hourofstar00lisp
ISBN 10
0811211908
LCCN
91029995
OCLC/WorldCat
24246408
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221304
Goodreads
762390

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Work ID
OL1002120W

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