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More than 40 writers, musicians, and translators come together to celebrate the works of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, Swiss violinist Maya Homburger, British composer Barry Guy, and American poet Mary Ruefle. This issue begins with an intimate portrait of Lispector, featuring her letters, paintings, and her candid final interview, complemented by essays from her translators and international writers, forming a 100-page tribute. The musical worlds of Homburger and Guy are explored through intertwined interviews, graphic scores, and a unique Bach Pilgrimage Portfolio, with contributions from conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. The edition concludes with a comprehensive appreciation of Ruefle’s career, including sixteen new poems and erasures from the "contemporary Dickinson." This ambitious collection captures the vibrant intelligences of four essential artists of our time. The contents include essays, interviews, and artworks related to Lispector, Homburger, Guy, and Ruefle, showcasing their profound impact on literature and music. Each section delves into their unique contributions and creative processes, offering readers a rich tapestry of insights and artistic expressions that celebrate their legacies.

The Hour of the Star , Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marylin Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free. She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator--edge of despair to edge of despair--and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader's preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love, and the art of fiction. In her last novel she takes readers close to the true mystery of life, and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis, in which she questions her place in the universe and her very identity, propelling her towards an act of shocking transgression