Tessa reviewed Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
Review of 'Breath of Life' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
''I wanted a very delicate, schizoid, elusive true kind of writing that would reveal to me the unwrinkled face of eternity.''
Reading this book is much like a bulimic experience. You should probably only read 10 to 15 pages at a time, yet you can't stop - you read, and you read fast, unable to stop the consummation. You binge on the heavy sentences that pound on your brain up to the point that you become nauseous by the amount of emotion they contain. You throw up - you go back a few pages, trying to get your grip back. You feel overwhelmed, yet addicted to this inexplicable urge to keep reading. When you finish, an emotional hangover - what just happened?
''I love you geometrically and at a point of the horizon forming a triangle with you. The result is a perfume of macerated roses.''