Editing Clarice Lispector (section)

===''A Breath of Life'' and ''The Hour of the Star''===
{{main|The Hour of the Star}}

Lispector worked on a book called ''Um sopro de vida: pulsações'' (''[[A Breath of Life]]: Pulsations'') that would be published posthumously in the mid-1970s. The book consists of a dialogue between an "Author" and his creation, Angela Pralini, a character whose name was borrowed from a character in a story in ''Where Were You at Night''. She used this fragmentary form for her final and perhaps most famous novel, ''A Hora da estrela'' (''The Hour of the Star'', 1977), piecing the story together, with the help of Olga Borelli, from notes scrawled on loose bits of paper. ''The Hour of the Star'' tells the story of Macabéa, one of the iconic characters in Brazilian literature, a starving, poor typist from [[Alagoas]], the state where Lispector's family first arrived, lost in the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro. Macabéa's name refers to the [[Maccabees]], and is one of the very few overtly [[Jews|Jewish]] references in Lispector's work. Its explicit focus on Brazilian poverty and marginality was also new.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Martins |first1=Gilberto Figueiredo |title=A narrativa da peregrinação – experiência e forma (uma leitura do Itinerarium Aetheriae) |url=https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/kaliope/article/view/7881 |website=Kalíope. Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Literatura e Crítica Literária |access-date=27 October 2024 |language=pt |date=2011}}</ref>