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The hour of the star

Clarice Lispector ; translated with an afterword by Giovanni Pontiero

(A New Directions paperbook, 733)

New Directions, 1992, c1986

タイトル別名

A hora da estrela

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注記

Originally published (English translation): [Manchester], Great Britain : Carcarnet Press, 1986

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabea, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabea 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, Macabea 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 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 leave us deep in Lispector territory indeed.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA84966888
  • ISBN
    • 0811211908
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    por
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    96 p.
  • 大きさ
    21 cm
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