A Breath of Life

by Clarice Lispector

Johnny Lorenz (Translator) and Benjamin Moser (Preface)

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A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published.

At her death, a mountain of fragments remained to be “structured” by Olga Borelli. These fragments form a dialogue between a god-like author who infuses the breath of life into his creation: the speaking, breathing, dying creation herself, Angela Pralini. The work’s almost occult appeal arises from the perception that if Angela dies, Clarice will have to die as well. And she did.

  • ISBN10 0811219623
  • ISBN13 9780811219624
  • Publish Date 19 June 2012 (first published 13 June 2012)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 220
  • Language English