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
Hilda Hilst Book order (chronological)
Hilda Hilst was a Brazilian author whose works explored delicate intimacy, insanity, and supernatural events. Her fiction and poetry often belong to the tradition of magic realism. For nearly fifty years, she dedicated herself to literary creation, and her work garnered significant Brazilian literary prizes.
The Obscene Madame D
- 57 pages
- 2 hours of reading
The English-language debut of one of Brazil's leading writers of the twentieth century
Os Cem Melhores Contos Brasileiros do Século
- 618 pages
- 22 hours of reading
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.