Fluxo-Floema
Published on 16. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
326 pages
978-1-937658-84-7 (ISBN)
Description
Fluxo-Floema is a detective novel of sorts-pornographic, scatological, and spiritual-that ultimately references the failure and success of writing. It's about vocabulary, astrology, dramaturgy, science, a story within a story within a story. It's a celestial map to social interaction and the failure of connection, a crafted examination of the distortions of religion and piety. Here we, the reader, visit nonsense, pathos, violence, and the flights of fancy of human coexistence.
Reviews / Votes
"Hilst has been creating work whose raw essence is drawn from a world of chaos that has slipped off-center (since losing its sacred core.)" -Nelly Novaes CoelhoMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-937658-84-7 (9781937658847)
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Persons
HILDA HILST (1930-2004) was born in Jau, a small town in the state of Sao Paulo. A graduate of law from the University of Sao Paulo, she dedicated herself to literary creation from 1954 to her death. She is recognized as one of the most important and controversial names in Brazilian contemporary literature and received some of Brazil's most prestigious literary prizes. ALEXANDRA JOY FORMAN is the author of Tall Slim & Erect: Portraits of the American Presidents and translator of Saga of Brutes by Ana Paula Maia. She lives in Rio de Janeiro.