Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"One of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers in all her vibrant colors." Orhan Pamuk
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"One of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers in all her vibrant colors." Orhan Pamuk
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"Lispector is an author that requires the reader's full participation, but the rewards are sizable." Barnes & Noble Review
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"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
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"Reading Lispector is an intellectual adventure... Serious writing is a dangerous business, and unlike any other author, Lispector is willing to embrace the danger and come out the other side of the void." The Coffin Factory
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"Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself." The Times Literary Supplement
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"Both dazzling and difficult." San Francisco Chronicle
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"One of 20th-century Brazil's most intriguing and mystifying writers." The L Magazine
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"The raw, demanding pace and the dialogic form of provoke an urgent meditation on life, self, and time. In fact, reading this novel may be a form of meditation." Full Stop
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.
About the Author
Clarice Lispector (1925-1977), the author of such works as Near to the Wild Heart, The Hour of the Star, and The Passion According to G. H., is the internationally acclaimed novelist and short-story writer from Brazil and the subject of Benjamin Moser's magisterial biography Why This World.The son of Brazilian immigrants, Johnny Lorenz teaches at Montclair State University and received a Fulbright for his work in Brazilian literature.Series editor Benjamin