A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispectors final novel, written in agony, which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: the speaking, shifting, indefinable Angela Pralini. As he has created Angela, so, eventually, he must let her die, for life is merely a kind of madness that death makes. This is a unique, elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art.