A Breath of Life
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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.
A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and 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 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. And she did.
Johnny Lorenz
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Johnny Lorenz, born in 1972, son of Brazilian immigrants to the US, is a translator, poet and Professor at Montclair State University. He translated Clarice Lispector's A Breath of Life and The Besieged City. His translation of Itamar Vieira Junior's Crooked Plow received support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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