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 …
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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 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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A Hora da Estrela
21x14cm, 88 pages
Portuguese language
Published Dec. 2, 2019 by Rocco.
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La hora de la estrella
Paperback, 112 pages
Spanish language
Published April 7, 2021 by Siruela.
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A Hora da Estrela
Hardcover
Portuguese language
Published by Rocco.
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A hora da estrela
106 pages
Portuguese language
Published Jan. 5, 1984 by F. Alves.
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- 978-85-265-0271-0Copied ISBN!
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- 26441538
The hour of the star
96 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1986 by Carcanet.
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- 978-0-85635-626-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 16757364
Hour of the Star
128 pages
English language
Published May 22, 2020 by Norton & Company Limited, W. W..
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- 978-0-8112-3004-9Copied ISBN!
A hora da estrela
107 pages
Portuguese language
Published Jan. 5, 2006 by Rocco.
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- 978-85-325-2127-9Copied ISBN!
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- 225861961
Hour of the Star
96 pages
English language
Published May 22, 2014 by Penguin Books, Limited.
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- 978-0-14-139203-5Copied ISBN!
A hora da estrela
104 pages
Portuguese language
Published Jan. 5, 1977 by Livraria J. Olympio Editora.
A hora da estrela
98 pages
Portuguese language
Published May 22, 1987 by Nova Fronteira.
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