I read The Hour of the Star last year and loved it, so today I picked up this hardcover edition, released for the centenary of Clarice Lispector’s birth. I’m really looking forward to reading it again, and to diving more into Lispector’s work
The Hour of the Star is a character study of a young woman named Macabéa living in poverty in Rio de Janeiro, but it’s also about the fictional author, Rodrigo S.M., as he interjects his own musings, insecurities, and feelings into the work as he writes. It’s a practically perfect 77 pages, beautiful and strange and formally exciting. Nobody else writes like Clarice Lispector does!
Anyways here are a few favorite passages, including the title page
