The Obscene Madame D - Hilda Hilst

A Wickedly Funny Work Of Depraved Genius By One Of Brazilrsquo;s Most Radical Twentieth-century Writers; Imagine The Marquis De Sade As Written By Clarice Lespecter An Electrifying Masterpiece By One Of Modern Brazilian Literaturersquo;s Most Significant And Controversial Writers, Hilda Hilst Takes Us Into The Disorder And Beauty Of A Mind Restlessly Testing Its Own Limits. Every Month I Ingested The Body Of God, Not In The Way One Swallows Green Peas Or Agrostis, Or Swallows Swords, I Ingested The Body Of God The Way People Do When They Know They Are Swallowing The More, The All, The Incommensurable, For Not Believing In Finitude I Would Lose Myself In Absolute Infinityhellip; The Obscene Madame D Tells The Story Of Hilleacute;, A Sixty-year-old Woman Who Has Decided To Abandon Conventional Life And Spend The Rest Of Her Days In Contemplation In A Recess Under The Stairs. There, She Is Haunted By The Perplexity Of Her Recently Deceased Lover, Ehud, Who Cannot Understand Her Rejection Of Common Sense, Sex And A Simple Life In Favour Of Metaphysical Speculations That He Considers Delusional And Vain.