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The Hour of the Star

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New Directions Publishing, 1986 - 96 pagina's
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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I love the introduction. - Goodreads
They have no concept of happy endings. - Goodreads
a short novella by a fascinating Brazilian writer. - Goodreads
Terribly difficult to read. - Goodreads
The writer is writing as the reader is reading. - Goodreads
Lispector's writing reminds me a little of Camus. - Goodreads

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One does not understand the sanctity of the title, though the novel is near-excellent. While pure being allows for self-consciousness, it may be so simplistic that it leads to near anonymity. Is it ...

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Although it didn't give me the same immediate hoard-of-scarabs feeling under my skin, the style and scenario of this one have been sticking with me in a way that those of Agua Viva didn't. Probably ... Volledige recensie lezen

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Clarice Lispector: The Hour Of The Star - World Literature Forum
Of course, The Hour Of The Star isn’t its only name, indeed there are a ... From the off, Rodrigo addresses the reader of The Hour Of The Star with his ...
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THE SCREEN: 'THE HOUR OF THE STAR,' FROM BRAZIL - New York Times
LEAD: THE heroine of ''The Hour of the Star'' is a doomed innocent, a young woman so naive and unworldly that she is first seen wiping her nose on the ...
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booklit » Blog Archive » Clarice Lispector: The Hour Of The Star
Following on from a recent post by dovegreyreader, I spotted a copy of Clarice Lispector’s The Hour Of The Star (1977) in Waterstones, knew I recognised the ...
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The Hour of the Star - a novel - John Baker’s Blog
In The Hour of the Star, which is Lispector’s last novel, the author is concerned with the emotional and intellectual fragmentation of our time. ...
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LIT 2090: Introduction to Hour of the Star
An Introduction to Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star ... The Hour of the Star was first published in Brazil as A hora da estrela in 1977, ...
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dovegreyreader scribbles: The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
It's taken quite a while for The Hour of the Star to sink in, settle down and for any thoughts to rise to the surface. I think it was the comparisons to ...
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The Hour of the Star, the story of poor Macabéa, a girl with no real talents, accomplishments or gifts — except her ability to accept humility and ...
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Over de auteur (1986)

Clarice Lispector was born in the Ukraine and was taken to Brazil as a young child. She was a law student, editor, translator, and newswriter, who traveled widely, spending eight years in the United States. "Family Ties" (1960) is a collection of short stories revealing Lispector's existentialist view of life and demonstrating that even family ties and social relationships are temporary. Although tied to each other and to the outside world, the characters are finally totally alone and separate. Lispector received praise from American critics for "The Apple in the Dark" (1967), a novel about a guilt-ridden man's search for the ultimate knowledge (Eve's apple), which he believes will bring him hope. Lispector's books are being translated into various languages in Europe, especially in France, where the critic Helene Cixous is one of her great admirers and a promoter of her works.

Bibliografische gegevens

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TitelThe Hour of the Star
Volume 733 van New Directions Paperbook
AuteurClarice Lispector
Editieherdruk, heruitgave
UitgeverNew Directions Publishing, 1986
ISBN0811211908, 9780811211901
Lengte96 pagina's
  
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