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Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Clarice Lispector: Hour of the Star (2020, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.)

The devastating final work by Brazil’s greatest modern writer, The Hour of the Star tells …

enormous as an ocean liner

oh the joy of the misery of the uncovering of the story of the girl who never knew she was what she was

i sink deep into comfort of this prose when there are so many grips to hold onto. Woe is she Macabéa and woe am I for reading this tale. How delisious.