A Breath of Life - Penguin Modern Classics

A Breath of Life
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A Breath of Life - Penguin Modern Classics

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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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780141197371
ISBN10 0141197374
Number Of Pages 192
Item Weight 148 g
Product Dimensions 128 x 198 x 13 mm
Publisher / Reseller Penguin Books Ltd
Format paperback
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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 *

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Author's Bio

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 just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.

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