The Hour of the Star (Second Edition)
A new edition of Clarice Lispector's final masterpiece, now with a vivid introduction by Colm Tóibín.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. Lispec…
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Weitere Autoren: Moser, Benjamin (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1960-0
- EAN: 9780811219600
- Produktnummer: 34246553
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'078 KB
- Auflage: Second Edition
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Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called astounding” (Rachel Kushner), a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and one of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk).
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