The Obscene Madame D by Hilda Hilst6/1/2023 Imagine one of those miraculous life-forms that live in hydrothermal vents at the deepest part of the ocean, an organism of the category extremophile, gifted with snail’s feet or red plumes or a host of delicate tubes, an organism thriving on poison gas at pressures greater than we surface-breathers could ever conceive. To that end, I give you the Brazilian wonderworker Hilda Hilst, and her first English title, The Obscene Madame D. Therefore if we attentively comb through the literatures of other cultures, occultly presented to us by indie presses and at the hands of provocative translators, we just might find ourselves exposed to an alternate and inverted set of art-heroes, an ‘alt-lit’ landscape that upends and distends our own. In academia and mainstream media, we are constantly being presented with literary rubrics from which we are locked out but the world, like Death, is different from what we supposed, and luckier. In collaboration with Rachel Gontijo Araujo)Īlt-Lit Divas: be not afraid. By Hilda Hilst (Translated from the Portuguese by Nathanaël
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