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Hour of the Star is a novel by Clarice Lispector. It tells the story of Macabea, a woman who is living in Rio de Janeiro's slums and who is in love with a rat named Rodrigo. Macabea is ugly and unloved, but she is inwardly free. Clarice Lispector's audacious last novel is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world.
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabea's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself, Clarice Lispector's audacious last novel is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world.
Review:
Her last and perhaps greatest novel -- Barbara Mujica Americas Her finest book The Nation Her searing last novel ... mesmerizing Vogue
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