Letters from a Seducer
Book Details
Author(s)Hilda Hilst
PublisherNightboat
ISBN / ASIN1937658155
ISBN-139781937658151
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank810,921
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
In Letters from a Seducer, Hilst describes the everyday life of Karl, a wealthy, erudite, and amoral man who seeks an answer to his incomprehension of life through sex. Karl writes and sends twenty provocative letters to Cordelia, his chaste sister. The letters’ text becomes intertwined with the life of the poet Stamatius, who finds Karl’s letters in the trash. It quickly dawns upon the reader that both men are in fact the same person albeit at different points of time and circumstance. This mirror play is the guiding trope for a uniquely grand work.


