{"product_id":"obscene-madame-d","title":"Obscene Madame D","description":"\u003ch1\u003eObscene Madame D\u003c\/h1\u003eHilda Hilst\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pushkin Press Classics\u003cbr\u003eMay 27 2025\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781805331360\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1805331361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003eA wickedly funny work of depraved genius by one of Brazil's most radical twentieth-century writers; imagine the Marquis de Sade as written by Clarice Lespecter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature's most significant and controversial writers, Hilda Hilst takes us into the disorder and beauty of a mind restlessly testing its own limits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery 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 infinity...\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Obscene Madame D \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of Hillé, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a stream-of-consciousness monologue that's part James Joyce, part Clarice Lispector, and part de Sade, Hillé speaks of her search for spiritual fulfilment from a space of dereliction, as she searches for answers to great questions of life, death and the relationship between body and soul.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44070014746669,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_4b9994de-db2a-4686-a78c-60585282af28.jpg?v=1768626409","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/obscene-madame-d","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}