
A Breath of Life
16.00 €
Nicht vorrätig
Email me when back in stock
- New Directions
- 2012 ISBN 9780811219624
- 144 pages
- Softcover
- 20 × 13 × 1.3 cm
Translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz
Edited by Benjamin Moser
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 a friend, 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.