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Author : Clarice Lispector
Release : 1992
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 901/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Hour of the Star by : Clarice Lispector
Download or read book The Hour of the Star written by Clarice Lispector. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece.
Author : Clarice Lispector
Release : 2023-10-03
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Book Rating : 536/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Hour of the Star by : Clarice Lispector
Download or read book The Hour of the Star written by Clarice Lispector. This book was released on 2023-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ravishing new translation by Benjamin Moser, Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star--"her finest book" (The Nation)--is narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S. M., who tells the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and barely scraping by as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, hot dogs, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she wishes to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is underfed, unattractive, 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 despair--and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away our preconceived notions (about poverty, identity, and love) to get at the true mystery of life.
Author : Clarice Lispector
Release : 2018-06-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 944/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Complete Stories by : Clarice Lispector
Download or read book Complete Stories written by Clarice Lispector. This book was released on 2018-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback—with three just-discovered stories Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don’t know what to do with themselves— and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives—and hers—and ours.
Author : M. Axelrod
Release : 1999-09-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 52X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Poetics of Novels by : M. Axelrod
Download or read book The Poetics of Novels written by M. Axelrod. This book was released on 1999-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Novels deals with the fundamentals of novel-writing and the execution of such, and though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. Novels include: Austen's Northanger Abbey , Beckett's Company , Brontë's Wuthering Heights , Cervantes' Don Quixote , Flaubert's Madame Bovary , Hamsun's Hunger , Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles , Lispector's Hour of the Star and Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept .
Author : Clarice Lispector
Release : 2022-05-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 678/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by : Clarice Lispector
Download or read book An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures written by Clarice Lispector. This book was released on 2022-05-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “to be worthy of life itself.” Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector’s attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller. Some appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers and critics, the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: “I humanized myself,” she said. “The book reflects that.”
