La Hora de la Estrella / The Hour of the Star

«Lispector escrib燰 como si nadie antes hubiese escrito. Fue uno de los genios del siglo XX, en la misma liga que Flannery O'Connor, Jorge Luis Borges y Fernando Pessoa. Extraordinariamente original y brillante, seductora e inquietante . --Colm T鏙b璯

Esta es "la historia de una inocencia herida, de una miseria an鏮ima, una breve e intensa visi鏮 del absurdo que supone una existencia anodina...". En las p墔inas de La hora de la estrella, considerada una de sus obras m嫳 importantes, aparece en toda su magnitud el personal疄imo estilo de Clarice Lispector: su peculiar forma de transformar las palabras en im墔enes vigorosas y puras se une aqu?a una compleja estructura formal.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Clarice Lispector's best-selling masterpiece―"her finest book" (The Nation)―now in a special hardcover edition to celebrate the centenary of her birth, with an illuminating new afterword by her son.

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 Macab嶧, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macab嶧 loves movies, Coca-Cola, 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, Macab嶧 is inwardly free. She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. As Macab嶧 heads toward her absurd death, 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 leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.