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A Breath of Life (New Directions Paperbook)

Clarice Lispector

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9780811219624
UPC:
9780811219624
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Published by:
New Directions
Translated by:
Johnny Lorenz
Pub date:
06/13/2012
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
167
ISBN:
9780811219624
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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.