The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector\'s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece.
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macab a loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to.
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.
M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macab a, one of life\'s unfortunates.
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector\'s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece.
In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.
As Macab a 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.
She doesn\'t seem to know how unhappy she should be.
Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macab a is inwardly free.
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macab a 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.
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.
M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macab a, one of life\'s unfortunates.
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector\'s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece.
In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.
As Macab a 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.
She doesn\'t seem to know how unhappy she should be.
Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macab a is inwardly free.
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macab a 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.
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.
M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macab a, one of life\'s unfortunates.
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector\'s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece
