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A Breath of Life (Penguin Modern Classics)
Clarice Lispector
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Description for A Breath of Life (Penguin Modern Classics)
paperback. Written in agony, this book features elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: the speaking, shifting, indefinable Angela Pralini. As he has created Angela, so, eventually, he must let her die, for life is merely 'a kind of madness that death makes.' This is a unique, elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art.
A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: the speaking, shifting, indefinable Angela Pralini. As he has created Angela, so, eventually, he must let her die, for life is merely 'a kind of madness that death makes.' This is a unique, elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141197371
SKU
9780141197371
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About Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was ... Read more
Reviews for A Breath of Life (Penguin Modern Classics)
A text that resonates endlessly ... her images dazzle
The Times Literary Supplement
Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before
Colm Tóibín
A thrilling book
Pedro Almodóvar
The Times Literary Supplement
Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before
Colm Tóibín
A thrilling book
Pedro Almodóvar