The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

Macabéa is a typist from the north-east of Brazil. She is poor, plain, badly educated and largely unaware of how little she has. The narrator telling her story keeps stopping, apologising, and admitting he does not know how to write about her.

Lispector's last book turns a slum life into something closer to philosophy. Every few pages the narration breaks open to ask what right a comfortable writer has to describe suffering — and whether the act of describing it is a kindness or a theft.

Short enough to read in an evening, and impossible to shake off afterwards.

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