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A Hora da Estrela

Clarice Lispector

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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 …

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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No cover — Clarice Lispector: La Hora de La Estrella (Paperback, Spanish language, Siruela)

La Hora de La Estrella

Paperback

Spanish language

Published by Siruela.

ISBN:: 978-84-7844-009-2
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No cover — Clarice Lispector: The hour of the star (1986, Carcanet)

The hour of the star

96 pages

English language

Published 1986 by Carcanet.

OCLC Number:: 16757364

No cover — Clarice Lispector: Hour of the Star (2014, Penguin Books, Limited)

Hour of the Star

96 pages

English language

Published 2014 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-139203-5
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No cover — Clarice Lispector: A hora da estrela (Portuguese language, 1977, Livraria J. Olympio Editora)

A hora da estrela

104 pages

Portuguese language

Published 1977 by Livraria J. Olympio Editora.

OCLC Number:: 4464583

No cover — Benjamin Moser, Colm Tóibín, Clarice Lispector, Paulo Gurgel Valente: Hour of the Star (2020, New Directions Publishing Corporation)

Hour of the Star

English language

Published 2020 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.

ISBN:: 978-0-8112-3099-5
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No cover — Benjamin Moser, Clarice Lispector: Hour of the Star (2022, Penguin Books, Limited)

Hour of the Star

English language

Published 2022 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-0-241-60057-3
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No cover — Benjamin Moser, Colm Toibin, Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero: Hour of the Star (2011, New Directions Publishing Corporation)

Hour of the Star

English language

Published 2011 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.

ISBN:: 978-0-8112-1960-0
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No cover — Benjamin Moser, Clarice Lispector: Hour of the Star (2014, Penguin Books, Limited)

Hour of the Star

English language

Published 2014 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-0-7181-9602-8
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No cover — Clarice Lispector: A hora da estrela (Portuguese language, 1987, Nova Fronteira)

A hora da estrela

98 pages

Portuguese language

Published 1987 by Nova Fronteira.

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