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Brazilian Writer - (1930 - 2004)
Poetry -Fiction - Erotica - Essays - Plays
I do remember the first time I saw her...through my father`s eyes... Beautiful, she was so beautiful...
I also recall the first time I heard her name... it also sounded special, almost candid and yet so imponent.
Hilda ... Hilda Hilst...
I could not help feeling jealous of such a fascinating woman, who was able through a book, to have all my father`s attention almost every night, after the `A Voz do Brasil` and `Reporter Esso`. He savoured her verses, one by one, and on the interludes, he just sat there, beautiful mental notes being revealed through his face. Once I asked him about the `story`, and he took a few seconds to find a brief passage, and with a voice freely exposing his emotions, he recited one of her verses.
I don`t remember the verse, I don`t even remember a single word ... but I do remember a shudder passing through my body, followed by a sense of dizziness, of looseness, of transcendence or perhaps of a joyous death.
Years later, I was to enconter her again. This time through a very special school teacher, the kind who insisted on defying those very difficult days during the military dictatorship, by introducing us to a very stimulating, provoking and by the time, an almost forbidden woman writer.
We had many other encounters, but the most delightful ones were when finding myself deeply in love, her verses were a relief, since through them, I was able to detect feelings of my own, trust the windings of my soul, get immersed into the strange wonders of the genuine pleasures and emotions.
Hilda was born in Jaú, a small town in the Southern area of Brazil.
She wrote mainly fiction and poetry, with a very strong and unique style, which focused on controversial issues like insanity, the occult, the supernatural, death and sexual desire. Her works show her own processing and continuing search for the limits and the frontiers between the absolutely sexual and erotic love at its extreme consciousness, as a path for the search and encounter with the sacred, the divine, the Absolute.
The extremes of desire and death were always present in her works and the use of the supernatural in the tradition of the `magic realism` often put her readers into a state of puzzlement and perplexity. For those who like her, she instils, provokes but in a very delicate way, by just making her words reverberate in our minds, like a sharply tender music.
She died at 73. In her last years she was still quite active, giving lecturers at the `University of Campinas`. She lived most of her life , at the `Casa do Sol`, a very peculiar, mystical place, surrounded by 50 dogs and huge piles of books, mostly related to philosophy and quantum-physics, in which she drowned herself into, in a scientific quest rather than methaphysical, looking for answers about the immortality of the soul. She published 41 books on poetry and fiction. Some of her works were published into French, English, Italian and German.
She was granted several awards and many critical praises.
(L.F/April.2008)
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`Colagens - A Tribute to Hilda Hilst`
by N. Mendeiros
Music - `Midnight and You` by Mongo Santamana |
`Nameless Songs`
May this love neither blind me nor follow me.
And may it never notice me.
May it spare me from being pursued
And from torment.
From only being so that he knows me.
May the gaze not lose itself among the tulips
Because such perfect forms of beauty
Spring from the glare of shadows.
And my Lord inhabits the glimmering dark
From a clutter of ivies on a high wall.
From: `Cantares do Sem Nomes e de Partidas`
S.P. Massao Ohno - 1995
Hilda Hilst`s Literary Works:
Poetry:
Presságio - SP: Revista dos Tribunais, 1950. (Ilustrações Darcy Penteado).
Balada de Alzira - SP: Edições Alarico, 1951. (Ilustrações de Clóvis Graciano).
Balada do festival - RJ: Jornal de Letras, 1955.
Roteiro do Silêncio - SP: Anhambi, 1959.
Trovas de muito amor para um amado senhor - SP: Anhambi, 1959 SP: Massao Ohno, 1961.
Ode fragmentária - SP: Anhambi, 1961.
Sete cantos do poeta para o anjo - SP: Massao Ohno, 1962. (Prêmio PEN Clube - S. P) (Ilustrações de Wesley Duke Lee)
Poesia (1959/1967) - SP: Livraria Sal, 1967.
Júbilo, memória, noviciado da paixão - SP: Massao Ohno, 1974.
Poesia (1959/1979) - SP: Quíron/INL, 1980. (Ilustração de Bastico).
Da Morte. Odes mínimas - SP: Massao Ohno, Roswitha Kempf, 1980. (Ilustrações da autora)
Cantares de perda e predileção - SP: Massao Ohno/M. Lídia Pires e Albuquerque Editores,1980 (Prêmio Jabuti/Câmara Brasileira do Livro. Prêmio Cassiano Ricardo/Clube de Poesia de São Paulo.)
Poemas malditos, gozosos e devotos - SP: Massao Ohno/Ismael Guarnelli Editores, 1984.
Sobre a tua grande face - SP: Massao Ohno, 1986.
Amavisse - SP: Massao Ohno, 1989.
Alcoólicas - SP: Maison de vins, 1990.
Do desejo - SP: Pontes, 1992
Bufólicas - SP: Massao Ohno, 1992. (Desenhos de Jaguar).
Cantares do sem nome e de partidas - SP: Massao Ohno, 1995.
Do amor - SP: Edith Arnhold/Massao Ohno, 1999.
Fiction:
Fluxo-Floema - SP: Perspectiva, 1970. Qadós - SP: Edart, 1973.
Ficções - SP: Quíron, 1977. (Prêmio APCA. Melhor livro do ano.)
Tu não te moves de ti - SP: Cultura, 1980.
A obscena senhora D - SP: Massao Ohno, 1982.
Com meus olhos de cão e outras novelas - SP: Brasiliense, 1986. (Ilustrações da autora).
O caderno rosa de Lori Lamby - SP: Massao Ohno, 1990. (Ilustrações de Millôr Fernandes).
Contos d`escárnio/Textos grotescos - SP: Siciliano, 1990.
Cartas de um sedutor - SP: Paulicéia, 1991.
Rútilo nada - Campinas: Pontes 1993. (Prêmio Jabuti/Câmara Brasileira do Livro.)
Estar sendo. Ter sido - SP: Nankin, 1997. (Ilustrações de Marcos Gabriel).
Cascos e carícias: crônicas reunidas (1992 / 1995) - SP: Nankin, 2000 Antologias Poéticas:
Do desejo - Campinas, Pontes, 1992.
Do amor - SP: Massao Ohno, 1999.
Plays:
A Possessa - 1967.
O rato no muro - 1967.
O visitante - 1968.
Auto da barca de Camiri - 1968.
O novo sistema - 1968.
As aves da noite - 1968.
O verdugo - 1969 (Prêmio Anchieta - Conselho Estadual de Cultura, 1970)
A morte do patriarca - 1969.
Teatro reunido (volume I) - 2000
Awards:
1962 - PEN Clube de São Paulo Award - `Sete cantos do poeta para o anjo`
1969 - Anchieta Award for `O Verdugo` - (Prêmio APCA) for `Ficções` - best book of the Year
1981 - APCA Award - for all her works
1984- Jabuti Award - ` Cantares de perda e predileção`
1985 - Cassiano Ricardo Award -` Cantares de perda e predileção`.
1993 - Rútilo Nada. A obscena sra. D. Qadós - Jabuti Award - Best Short Story
2002- Award `Prêmio Moinho Santista` - Poetry
2003 - APCA Award - Literatura - `Obras completas`.
Our thanks to the following research sources:
`100 Anos de Poesia` - Um Panorama da Poesia Brasileira Século XX-`
by Claufe Rodrigues and Alexandra Maia
www.brazilpoetry.blogspot.com
www.revista.agulha.nom.br
www.youtube.com
www.reeleituras.com
www.lumiarte.com
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