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A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector (Paperback, 2012)

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Lispector did not even live to see it published. Author: Clarice Lispector. 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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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 t 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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PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation

ISBN-100811219623

ISBN-139780811219624

eBay Product ID (ePID)114150313

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Place of PublicationNew York

Translated byJohnny Lorenz

Author BiographyClarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in western Ukraine. As a result of the anti-Semitic violence they endured, the family fled to Brazil in 1922, and Clarice Lispector grew up in Recife. Following the death of her mother when Clarice was nine, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her father and two sisters, and she went on to study law. With her husband, who worked for the foreign service, she lived in Italy, Switzerland, England, and the United States, until they separated and she returned to Rio in 1959; she died there in 1977. Since her death, Clarice Lispector has earned universal recognition as Brazil's greatest modern writer. The son of Brazilian immigrants, Johnny Lorenz teaches at Montclair State University and received a Fulbright for his work in Brazilian literature. Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, and is also the editor of a new translation of Clarice Lispector's work, of which this is the sixth volume. A former books columnist at Harper's Magazine, Moser is now a columnist at The New York Times Book Review, and is currently at work on the authorized biography of Susan Sontag. He lives in the Netherlands.

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

Author(s)Clarice Lispector

Date of Publication19/06/2012

SubjectGeneral & Literary Fiction

ImprintNew Directions Publishing Corporation

Country of PublicationUnited States