“Who hasn’t asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”
— Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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There is a new version of a well-loved and mind-blowing novel I must recommend — and it’s slim enough, under 81 pages, to carry in your pocket or pocketbook. The new translation by Benjamin Moser of The Hour of the Star (New Directions, Nov. 2011), the final novel published by the Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector (1911-1977) mere weeks before her death, is phenomenal.
Magdalena Edwards on the new translation of Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star
Source: themillions.com
