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The Obscene Madame D

by Hilda Hilst

  

€ 12.50 

ISBN: 9781805331360

The Obscene Madame D is the electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature's most significant and controversial writers.

At sixty years old, Hille decides to abandon conventional life and devote the rest of her days to contemplation in a recess under the stairs. There, she is haunted by her perplexed, recently deceased lover, Ehud, who cannot understand her rejection of common sense, sex and a simple life in favour of vain metaphysical speculations.

In a stream-of-consciousness monologue, Hille speaks of her search for spiritual fulfilment from a space of dereliction. In thrilling prose that is part Joyce, part Lispector and part de Sade, Hilda Hilst takes us into the disorder and beauty of a mind restlessly testing its own limits.

80 pages.

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Date of Publication: 22/05/2025

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