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The title, A Breath of Life, refers to the creation, mystical or “Frankensteinian,” of one being by another. When I saw it I thought: Pedro Almodóvar will love Clarice. And Caetano thought the same.  \nLike Caetano, who discovered her at age 17, when he still lived in a small city in the interior of Bahia, I fell for Clarice when I was young, in a college Portuguese course in the United States. Ever since, I dreamed of making her better known outside Brazil.  \nTwo years ago, I finally published a biography of Clarice Lispector, Why This World. Now, with these translations, we are taking the next step.  \nThe biggest question that occurs to me as I read A Breath of Life is: Was Clarice, more or less dying as she wrote it, mad? Because at many points it reminds me of the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, which you surely know: a journey into madness.  \nBut there is also, hidden within this book, a terrible story that I discovered when I was researching my biography. It was known that Clarice was born to Jewish parents in the Ukraine in 1920, and that the Lispectors had arrived as refugees in Brazil when she was still an infant.  \nWhat was not known, because of the shame that still predominates in many Jewish families, is that, in that period of war, starvation, and racial persecution, her mother had been raped in a pogrom by Russian soldiers, and that she had consequentially contracted syphilis, which was then incurable.  \nAccording to the folk superstitions of the remote area where they lived, a woman with syphilis could be cured by pregnancy. And so that is what her parents did.  \nThe result of this attempt to save her mother was Clarice Lispector herself. For her mother, however, the pregnancy cured nothing. And Clarice, for the first nine years of her life, was forced to watch her mother agonizing, paralyzed, exiled, dying.  \nFeeling the guilt of having failed in her attempt to cure her mother, the girl started telling stories in which an angel, a saint, a god, came to cure her. These stories failed.  \nThe tragedy is the origin of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. And until the very end of her life—until A Breath of Life—she never lost the hope of repairing the world through mystic means.  \nIn this book she creates Angela because, as she says, she needs someone to save. But at the end of the book she knows that she has to let her die. And the little girl’s dream returns, literally, in the last pages she wrote.  \nLast night I had a dream within a dream. I dreamed that I was calmly watching actors working on a stage. And through a door that was not locked men came in with machine guns and killed all the actors. I began to cry: I didn’t want them to be dead. So the actors got up off the ground and said: we aren’t dead in real life, just as actors, the massacre was part of the show. Then I dreamed such a good dream: I dreamed this: in life we are actors in an absurd play written by an absurd God. We are all participants in this theater: in truth we never shall die when death happens. We only die as actors. 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