[DeepL Translation - needs review] The Hour of the Star
the last book published during her author's lifetime, is one of the most brilliant works of modern Brazilian literature.
This is "the story of a wounded innocence, of an anonymous misery", a brief and intense vision of the absurdity of an anodyne existence, a routine empty of both thoughts and affections, like that of Macabea, the insignificant and scrawny young woman from the Northeast who is permanently dumbfounded, a girl who "did no...
