With My Dog Eyes: A Novel

Hilda Hilst

$12.95

SKU:: 9781612193458
UPC:: 9781612193458
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Published by:: Melville House
Translated by:: Adam Morris
Pub date:: 04/29/2014
Binding type:: Paperback
Pages:: 96
ISBN:: 9781612193458

Description

Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) was one of the greatest Brazilian writers of the twentieth century, but her books have languished untranslated, in part because of their formally radical nature. This translation of With My Dog-Eyes brings a crucial work from her oeuvre into English for the first time.

With My Dog-Eyes is an account of an unraveling--of sanity, of language . . . After experiencing a vision of what he calls "a clear-cut unhoped-for," college professor Am s Keres struggles to reconcile himself with his life as a father, a husband, and a member of the university with its "meetings, asskissers, pointless rivalries, gratuitous resentments, jealous talk, megalomanias."

A stunning book by a master of the avant-garde.