"The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing."

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Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.

— Benjamin Moser