The Obscene Madame D
The Obscene Madame D is the first work by acclaimed Brazilian author Hilda Hilst to be published in English. Radically irreverent and formally impious, this novel portrays an unyielding radical intelligence, a sixty-year-old woman who decides to live in the recess under the stairs. In her...
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The Obscene Madame D is the first work by acclaimed Brazilian author Hilda Hilst to be published in English. Radically irreverent and formally impious, this novel portrays an unyielding radical intelligence, a sixty-year-old woman who decides to live in the recess under the stairs. In her diminutive space, Madame D--for dereliction--relives the perplexity of her recently deceased lover who cannot comprehend her rejection of common sense, sex, and a simple life, in favor of metaphysical speculations that he supposes to be delusional and vain.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781937658069 (1937658066)
Publish date: September 11th 2012
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
Alex Estes has written a really wonderful review of Hilst’s novel for Full Stop, one in which he views this first publication of her work in English as “the literary miracle of 2012.”Estes’s positioning of Hilst’s work in the context of Hélène Cixous’s notion of l’écriture féminine is spot-on. In Hi...
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