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The Hour of the Star
by Clarice Lispector · 1977
Difficulty
intermediate
Length
short
Reading Time
2–4 hours
About the Book
Macabéa, a poor typist from Brazil's Northeast, is narrated by a male writer who cannot escape the ethical discomfort of telling her story.
Why You Should Read It
Read it as Clarice's most accessible masterpiece: brief, strange, heartbreaking, and formally brilliant.
Who This Book Is For
For readers who want a powerful first encounter with Lispector and a classic that can be read in one sitting.
About the Author
Clarice Lispector is one of the most radical and intimate voices in modern literature. Her books often begin in ordinary rooms, ordinary gestures, and ordinary women, then open into moments of revelation, estrangement, terror, desire, or spiritual vertigo. She is not a writer of easy plots; she is a writer of consciousness, language, sensation, and inner rupture.
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