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A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.

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"Both dazzling and difficult." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"The raw, demanding pace and the dialogic form of A Breath of Life provoke an urgent meditation on life, self, and time. In fact, reading this novel may be a form of meditation." -- Full Stop
"One of 20th-century Brazil’s most intriguing and mystifying writers." -- The L Magazine
"I had a sort of missionary urge with her...but I started thinking, even when I was 19: How can I help this person reach the prominence she deserves?" -- Benjamin Moser - San Francisco Chronicle

A Breath of Life

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    A Paperback / softback by Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser

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      Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Published 19 June 2012
      ISBN-13 9780811219624
      978-0811219624
      ISBN-10 0811219623

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.

      Trade Review
      "Both dazzling and difficult." -- San Francisco Chronicle
      "The raw, demanding pace and the dialogic form of A Breath of Life provoke an urgent meditation on life, self, and time. In fact, reading this novel may be a form of meditation." -- Full Stop
      "One of 20th-century Brazil’s most intriguing and mystifying writers." -- The L Magazine
      "I had a sort of missionary urge with her...but I started thinking, even when I was 19: How can I help this person reach the prominence she deserves?" -- Benjamin Moser - San Francisco Chronicle

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