A Breath of Life

ISBN-13:	9780811219624
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	06/13/2012
Series:	New Directions Books
Pages:	220
Sales rank:	43,467
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.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.