The Obscene Madame D
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The English-language debut of one of Brazil's leading writers of the twentieth century
Hilda Hilst Boeken
Hilda Hilst was een Braziliaanse auteur wiens werken delicate intimiteit, waanzin en bovennatuurlijke gebeurtenissen onderzochten. Haar fictie en poëzie behoren vaak tot de traditie van het magisch realisme. Bijna vijftig jaar lang wijdde ze zich aan literaire creatie, en haar werk ontving belangrijke Braziliaanse literatuurprijzen.
Something has changed in Amos Keres, a university mathematics professor - his sentences trail off in class, he is disgusted by the sight of his wife and son, and he longs to flee the comfortable bourgeois life he finds himself a part of. Most difficult of all are his struggles to express what has happened to him, for a man more accustomed to numbers than words. He calls it 'the clearcut unhoped-for, ' and it's a vision that will drive him to madness and, eventually, death
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- 22 uur lezen
Finalista do Jabuti. Coletânea organizada por Ítalo Moriconi, pautada por critérios como gosto e qualidade, reafirmando o alto nível de nossa produção além de apresentar uma galeria de autores e textos há muito esquecidos ou ainda não descobertos.