A Breath of Life
- ISBN-10
- 0811219623
- ISBN-13
- 9780811219624
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 167
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-06-13
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Author
- Clarice Lispector
Description
"A mystical mediation on creation and death in which a man (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) infuses the "breath of life" into his creation [and] forms a dialogue between the god-like author and the speaking, breathing, dying creature herself: Angela Pralini"--P. [4] of cover.
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