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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

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
Relief, Passionate, Sacred

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

Benjamin Moser
Mean, Shoes, Literature

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

Benjamin Moser
Madness, Reason, Mathematics
Benjamin Moser (2009). “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector”, p.77, Oxford University Press

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.

Benjamin Moser
Different, Talent, Vocation
Benjamin Moser (2009). “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector”, p.79, Oxford University Press

There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.

Benjamin Moser
War, Men, Stronger
Benjamin Moser (2009). “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector”, p.105, Oxford University Press

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