Hello, Readers!
Thank you to everyone who attended this month's World Affairs Book Group conversation about The Hour of the Star by Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector. There was so much to unpack and explore in this slim 1977 novella!
The Hour of the Star: For Further Exploration
A Hora da Estrela, the 1985 film adaptation.
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser, translator of The Hour of the Star.
About the book's adaptation as an opera.
A video recording of a conversation about the philosophy of translation featuring Katrina Dodson, who translated Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (from the Center for Fiction).
About Clock Radio (Radio Relogio), in Portuguese but translation to English available. [Thank you to Brennan for this link.]
"The True Glamour of Clarice Lispector," a 2015 New Yorker essay by Benjamin Moser.
Our January Discussion
We begin 2024 with a novel by the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jon Fosse. About The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse:
The lives of an aging painter and his doppelganger converge and diverge in an elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, in the first volume of the celebrated Norwegian writer's Septology.
When and Where:
Sunday, January 28, 2024
11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. (approx.) Pacific Time
Books Inc. Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness, San Francisco
-->The book is in stock at Books Inc. Opera Plaza. The Ebook is also available.
As always, thank you for reading!
Best wishes to you for the year ahead.
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