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A Breath of Life

Published
Jun 2012
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Literary Literary
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220

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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.

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Feb 2014 Penguin (UK) ISBN 0141197374
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First Edition Jul 2012 New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN 0811220702
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Jun 2012 -- Not Selected ISBN B00856PD0S
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Jul 2022 Penguin (UK) ISBN 0241600537
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