With My Dog Eyes: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (754 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1612193455 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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 Amós 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.. 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
Sigurjon B Sigurdsson said With My Dog Eyes is a wonderful example of literature at its most challenging and experimental. With My Dog Eyes is a wonderful example of literature at its most challenging and experimental. It is amazing in its depiction of how a mental breakdown of a civilised man (a mathematician in this case) brings him down on all fours and into the state of. "Dated and tedious" according to Glitter. This came recommended; however I found it tedious and predictable. Ms. Hilst was an eccentric iconoclast, but her work doesn't hold up to the times. Only for those interested in Hilst's time and place/. Five Stars Jakob Kaae Wow!
Born the heiress to a coffee fortune, she abandoned São Paulo and a law career in the 1950s to devote herself to literature, moved to the countryside, and built herself a house, Casa do Sol, where she lived until the end of her life with a rotating cast of friends, lovers, aspiring artists, bohemian poets, and dozens of dogs. . She received numerous major literary prizes
“Told through poetic and disjointed prose, With My Dog-Eyes is a dark and truly singular work.”—NPR, Best Books of 2014“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.”—Boston Globe“A pleasure to see and read.”—NPR“A slim but potent text, this one will sear your brain."—Jeff Vandermeer picks the Best Fiction of 2014, Electric Literature“Hilst rigorously examined the limits of language and the literary pursuit itself… She uses