Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.1986 Carcanet Press, first U.K. edition, 96 pages. Cult favorite Ukrainian-born Lispector was a celebrated Brazilian writer who wrote in a stream-of-consciousness style. She notoriously was in a near-fatal apartment fire, which she never mentally recovered from. As recounted in a retrospective in the New York Times “'When I don’t write,' Lispector told an interviewer in her sole television appearance shortly after finishing the book, 'I am dead.' When the interviewer proposed that the author could be reborn in a new book, Lispector demurred, saying: 'For the moment I’m dead. I’m speaking from my tomb.” Hour of the Star was published shortly before her death.
Condition: Jacket VG condition, some wear, book VG
"Everything in the world began with a yes."
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.1986 Carcanet Press, first U.K. edition, 96 pages. Cult favorite Ukrainian-born Lispector was a celebrated Brazilian writer who wrote in a stream-of-consciousness style. She notoriously was in a near-fatal apartment fire, which she never mentally recovered from. As recounted in a retrospective in the New York Times “'When I don’t write,' Lispector told an interviewer in her sole television appearance shortly after finishing the book, 'I am dead.' When the interviewer proposed that the author could be reborn in a new book, Lispector demurred, saying: 'For the moment I’m dead. I’m speaking from my tomb.” Hour of the Star was published shortly before her death.
Condition: Jacket VG condition, some wear, book VG
"Everything in the world began with a yes."