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“Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, & when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself.” — The Times Literary Supplement"A mystical mediation on creation & death in which a man (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) infuses the "breath of life" into his creation [&] forms a dialogue between the god-like author & the speaking, breathing, dying creature herself: Angela Pralini" — P. [4] of cover.°°° A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) & his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published. At her death, a mountain of fragments remained to be “structured” by a friend, 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.°°° Clarice Lispector was born to a Jewish family in western Ukraine. As a result of the anti-Semitic violence they endured, the family fled to Brazil in 19

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Author

Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz (translation), Benjamin Moser (editor)

Publisher

A New Directions Book/New Directions Publishing Corporations

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811220705

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

4.27 / 5 (476 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14