The Hour of the Star

The Hour of the Star

  

by Clarice Lispector

Current Events & Pop Culture

Available to teachers only as part of the Teaching The Hour of the Star Teacher Pass


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Saving the Best Until Last

Author Colm Tóibín makes the case that Lispector's final text was arguably her best in this piece for the Guardian.


Excerpt

Most late work has a spectral beauty, a sense of form and content dancing a slow and skillful waltz with each other. Lispector, on the other hand, as she came to the end of her life, wrote as though her life was beginning, with a sense of a need to stir and shake narrative itself to see where it might take her, as the bewildered and original writer that she was, and us, her bewildered and excited readers. (Source)