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final workby Brazil'sgreatest modern writer,The Hour ofthe Startells the hauntingtale of Macabéa,atypist wholivesin the slums of Rio-underfed,sickly,and unloved,yet inwardly free.  \n“Most late work has a spectral beauty,a sense of form and content dancing a slowand skillfulwaltz with each other.Lispector,on the other hand,as she came to theend of her life,wrote as though her life was beginning,with a sense of a need tostir and shake narrative itself to see where it might take her,as the bewildered andoriginal writer that she was,and us,her bewildered and excited readers.”  \n-COLM Tó1BÍN  \nCLARICE LISPECTOR(1920-1977),\"that rare person wholookea ike Mar-lene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf\"(Gregory Rabassa),was born toaJewish family in the Ukraine who arrived,penniless,in Brazil in 1922.Married toa diplomat,Lispector spen'many years in Europe and the United States before re-turning to Rio de Janeiro in 1959.  \nCOLM TÓIBÍN,the author of Brooklyn,The Master;and the story collectionThe Empty Family,has won the Costa Book Award and the Dublin IMPAC.Prize.  \nBENJAMIN MOSER is the author of Why This World,the biography ofClarice Lispector acclaimed as \"worthy of its great subject\"by Orhan PanukUnder his editorship,New Directions is publishing new translations of four otherLispector books.  \n“A truly remarkable writer.”  \nJONATHAN FRANZEN  \n“A genius of character and a literary magician.”  \nPUBL1SHERS WEEKLY  \n\"An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the samepantheon asKafka and Joyce.”一EDMUND WIIITE  \ncOVER DESIGN BY RODRIGo CORRAL  \nA NEW DIRECTIONS PAPERBOOK  \n$12.95 USA/$15.00 CAN75 YEARS OFINDEPENDENT PUBLISHING  \n# The Hour of the Star\n\nALSO BY CLARICE LISPECTOR  \nAVAILABLE FROM NEW DIRECTIONS  \nSoulstorm  \nNear to the Wild HeartThe Foreign LegionSelected CronicasFORTHCOMINGA Breath of Life  \nThe Passion According to G.H.Agua Viva  \n# THE HOUROF THE STAR\n\nClarice Lispector  \nTranslated from the Portuguese by Benjamin MoserIntroduction by Colm Tóibín  \nCopyright ◎1977 The Heirs of Clarice LispectorTranslation copyright ◎2011 Benjamin MoserIntroduction copyright ◎201 Colm Tóibín  \nOriginally published as A hora da estrela.Published by arrangement with theHeirs ofClarice Lispector and Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells,Barcelona.  \nAllrights reserved.Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper,magazine,radio,television,or website review,no part of this book may be reproduced inany form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopyingand recording,or by any information storage and retrieval system,withoutpermission in writing from the Publisher.  \nFirst published as New Directions Paperbook 733 in I992  \nPublished in this new translation as New Directions Paperbook 1212 in 20IPublished simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada LimitedManufactured in the United States of AmericaNew Directions Books are printed on acid-free paper.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nLispector,Clarice.  \n[Hora da estrela.English]  \nThe hour of the star/Clarice Lispector;a new translation by Ben Moser;introduction by Colm Tóibín.  \np.cm.  \n“Translated from the Portuguese AHora da Estrela.”  \nISBN978-0-8112-1949-5(pbk.:acid-free paper)  \n1.Rio de Janeiro(Brazil)—Fiction.2.Psychological fiction.  \nI.Moser,Benjamin.II.Title.  \nPQ9697.L585H67132OII869.3—dc23  \n2011025482  \nI0987654321  \nNew Directions Books are published for James Laughlinby New Directions Publishing Corporation8o Eighth Avenue.New York 100II  \n31223098969083  \nContents  \nA Passion for the Void by Colm Tóibín vii  \nDedication by the Author xiii  \nTHE HOUR OF THE STAR3  \nTranslator's Afterword 79  \n# A Passion for the Void\n\nIN JANUARY I963,ELIZABETH BISHOP WROTE TO ROBERTLowell from Rio deJaneiro about the stories of Clarice Lispec-tor.“Ihave translated five of Clarice's stories,\"she wrote,“all theshort 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