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. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved.
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life’s unfortunates.
We will be discussing Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star. We will be meeting Thursday, March 30, at 8:00 pm at Petrina’s house. After a very long break we are finally reconvening this week.
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