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 …
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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 narratoredge of despair to edge of despairand, 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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A hora da estrela
Paperback, 106 pages
Portuguese language
Published 1984 by F. Alves.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-265-0271-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 26441538
La hora de la estrella (Libros del Tiempo)
Hardcover, 88 pages
Spanish language
Published by Siruela.
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- 978-84-7844-510-3Copied ISBN!
La hora de la estrella
Paperback, 112 pages
Spanish language
Published by Siruela.
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- 978-84-16120-79-6Copied ISBN!
L'hora de l'estrella
Paperback, 160 pages
Published by Club Editor, CLUB EDITOR.
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- 978-84-7329-285-6Copied ISBN!
The Hour of the Star (Black & White)
Paperback, 96 pages
Published by Carcanet Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-85635-989-7Copied ISBN!
Hour of the Star
128 pages
English language
Published 2020 by Norton & Company Limited, W. W., New Directions Publishing Corporation, New Directions.
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- 978-0-8112-3004-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1162259262
A Hora da Estrela
Hardcover
Portuguese language
Published by Rocco.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-325-3066-0Copied ISBN!
The hour of the star
96 pages
English language
Published 1992 by New Directions Pub. Corp..
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8112-1190-1Copied ISBN!
The hour of the star
96 pages
English language
Published 1992 by New Directions Pub. Corp..
- OCLC Number:
- 24246408
Hora De La Estrella La 1ro.ed.
Paperback
Published by CORREGIDOR.
- ISBN:
- 978-950-05-1873-4Copied ISBN!
A Hora da Estrela
capa comum, 88 pages
Portuguese language
Published by Rocco.
- ISBN:
- 978-65-5532-035-0Copied ISBN!
The hour of the star
English language
Published 2011 by New Directions.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8112-1949-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 733755465
The Hour of the Star
Paperback, 96 pages
Published by New Directions, New Directions Publishing Corporation.
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- 978-0-8112-3753-6Copied ISBN!
A hora da estrela
107 pages
Portuguese language
Published 2006 by Rocco.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-325-2127-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 225861961
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