Breath of Life PMC

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A sensational and mystical novel from one of the 20th century's greatest modernist writers

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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141197371
Published: February 2014

Number of pages: 192
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 11 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd