A Breath of Life

A haunting, mystical dialogue between creator and creation, this posthumous work—never before translated—offers a unique glimpse into the mind of Clarice Lispector.

In this extraordinary text, Lispector, disguised as a male author, converses with Angela Pralini, the woman he brings to life. Through a collection of fragments carefully structured by Olga Borelli after Lispector’s death, the novel becomes a meditation on creation, mortality, and the porous boundary between author and character.

Angela breathes, speaks, and dies; yet her existence is inseparable from that of her creator. The novel’s uncanny power lies in this entwining: if Angela perishes, Lispector herself is implicated in that finality—and indeed, she did not live to see it published.

Filled with beauty, strangeness, and the almost occult intimacy of life breathed into words, this work invites readers into a space where fiction and reality blur, and where the act of creation itself becomes both a blessing and a haunting.