The Hour of the Star
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 despai…
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Weitere Autoren: Tóibín, Colm (Solist) / Moser, Benjamin (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1949-5
- EAN: 9780811219495
- Produktnummer: 19380029
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D0.9 cm 121 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Gewicht: 121
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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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