The Obscene Madame D

By Hilda Hilst

The Obscene Madame D is the first work by acclaimed Brazilian author Hilda Hilst to be published in English. Radically irreverent and formally impious, this novel portrays an unyielding radical intelligence, a sixty-year-old woman who decides to live in the recess under the stairs. In her diminutive space, Madame D--for dereliction--relives the perplexity of her recently deceased lover who cannot comprehend her rejection of common sense, sex, and a simple life, in favor of metaphysical speculations that he supposes to be delusional and vain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937658066
• ISBN13: 9781937658069
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"