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Jan 18, 2014 · In October 1977, shortly before her death, she published the novella The Hour of the Star in which all her talents and eccentricities merged and folded in a densely self-conscious narrative ...
Oct 26, 1977 · 4.09. 35,571 ratings4,133 reviews. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. 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 de Janeiro and eking out a poor living as a typist ...
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Brazilian author Clarice Lispector’s novel The Hour of the Star ( A Hora da Estrela) was published shortly before her death in 1977. Lispector drew on personal experiences from her childhood in northeast Brazil as well as her life in Rio de Janeiro. The book’s eight brief chapters were compiled by Lispector and her friend and assistant ...
But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”. ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star. 53 likes.
- Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero
- 1977
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Rodrigo S.M. Rodrigo is the Narrator of the book, and is an arrogant type of man who has no idea that he is arrogant. He speaks directly to the reader and therefore puts himself on a par with them as an equal, rather than including himself as one of the characters in the story. Rodrigo is a philosophical man, who spends a great deal of time ...
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