"Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda……" — Benjamin Moser
"Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief."
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Benjamin Moser
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