The Hour of the Star
by Clarice Lispector
Current Events & Pop Culture
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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)