5/12/2023 0 Comments The obscene madame d“A provocative and engaging personal portrait… Worth your time.” “Hilst’s fictions are feats of economy and compression: though they are short…the texts do not feel small… One of the great achievements of Hilst’s fiction is indeed the splendor that wrenches the reader, too, from sameness, the way it challenges and provokes, with a seriousness and irreverence, a comedy and bleakness all its own.” “Clear and unforgettable… It is certain that Hilst’s short book by the end grows as large as the dilating heart." “Hilst rigorously examined the limits of language and the literary pursuit itself… uses language like a rod, ramming it every which way in order to collapse the space between orgasm and insanity.” Jeff Vandermeer picks the Best Fiction of 2014, Electric Literature “A slim but potent text, this one will sear your brain." “Hilst’s writing is characterized by an exuberant, masterful impropriety and winding sentences that put it, by her own lights, squarely in the tradition of literature that includes Joyce and Beckett.” “Told through poetic and disjointed prose, With My Dog-Eyes is a dark and truly singular work.”
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