The Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector (1925-1977), the author of such works as Near to the Wild Heart, The Hour of the Star, and The Passion According to G. H., is the internationally acclaimed novelist and short-story writer from Brazil and the subject of Benjamin Moser’s magisterial biography Why This World.Series editor Benjamin Moser, who contributes afterwords for all four of these new translations, is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, due out in paperback from Oxford University Press in May 2012. He also just completed a new translation of Lispector’s The Hour of the Star.The Irish author Colm Tóibín’s most recent novel, the bestselling Brooklyn, won the 2010 Costa Fiction Award.

出版者:New Directions

作者:Clarice Lispector

页数:128

译者:Benjamin Moser

出版时间:2011-11-9

价格:USD 12.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780811219495

图书标签:巴西Lispector拉美小说外国文学文学译本英文原版

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector’s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life’s unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free. She doesn’t seem to know how unhappy she should be. As Macabéa heads toward her absurd death, Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator—edge of despair to edge of despair—and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader’s preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love, and the art of fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.

读后感

生存本身就是一件痛苦荒谬，充满苦难，虚无且没价值的事。我们被喧嚣野蛮的匆忙撕成碎片。认清生命不值得追求后选择服从现实，保持理性克制，崇尚科学和逻辑，过一种崇高正义，冷静文明，高尚体面，庄严明智的生活。当我们把知识当作美德，认为保持清醒就会幸福，可真相却是，...  

体验到同一种感受，描述如此不同 ——同出一穴的联想。 克拉丽丝：有时，就在办公室，感恩会把她攫获。这时她会来到卫生间，一个人独处，她站着，微笑着，直到一切过去。 (几近抽象的生命) 纳博科夫：看着我自己的眼睛，我发现了仅仅是寻常那个自我的渣滓，一个蒸发后的本体的...  

[法]赫莱娜·西苏 这个女人几乎难以置信。更确切地说：她的书写几乎难以置信。爱因斯坦说，世人有一天会发觉，一个像甘地这样的人曾在这个星球上有血有肉地存在，是难以置信的。 对于克拉丽丝·李斯佩克朵，我们发觉自己艰难地，但也惊喜地相信，她的存在本可以离我们这么近，...  

用户评价

读的时候想到了自白派的Sylvia Plath, 这小说没怎么读懂。

技巧、品味、文字风格都是有的，南美版卖火柴的小女孩之类。只是完全不对我的胃。两星不是说书的水平。客观来说三星差不多有。两星是我的阅读体验。-_- 本来想音乐节时跟Tiago他们吹吹，最近看了他们一本小说之类。既然打了两星，还是不要开口了。[开篇竟然逼逼了15页才“缓缓”开讲，以至于到最后看到“好了，我要开讲了”就知道她肯定又要绕到别处去，已经隐约在抓狂。如果不是火车晚点困于车站肯定早就扔掉了。]

有Plath的味道，比她再刻薄自信一些

don't forget for now it is...

中间耽搁了几天，总算是读完了。最后一部分读的太悲伤了。不知道说什么好，很多东西缠绕在脑子里。