Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane.

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.
BENJAMIN MOSER

Literature Mean Shoes
I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.
BENJAMIN MOSER

Madness Mathematics Reason
Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.
BENJAMIN MOSER

Different Talent Vocation
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.
BENJAMIN MOSER

Discomfiting Obscene Pure Rarely Show Translation
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane.
BENJAMIN MOSER

Passionate relief Sacred

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