Letters from a Seducer

'She is a novelist with the fecundity and multivocality of Joyce, with the precision and wit of Sarraute, and yet she is something new under the sun, the poet of "friezes, strips, joyful bands, columbombastic screams." Maybe all women wonder what men would be like, without their posturing and wack, but it seems to me Hilst had more than an inkling' - Dodie Bellamy

'Letters of a Seducer seduces the reader with all the strategies available to a fine writer: wit, wonderfully inventive language lushly captured by the translator, an intriguing story-and did I say sexuality that broils and bubbles along at a mad and marvelous intensity? This is a brilliant performance!' - Samuel R. Delany

'Consider this your personal message of recommendation from me to you to read Hilda Hilst, as much as you can... Letters From a Seducer will make you blush, gasp, become aroused then feel weird about it, laugh a lot. After reading any Hilst your body and mind will make more and less sense to each other. Your verbal and sensorial understandings will alter, youll slap your thigh and yell at the shock of a line, youll feel drunk, ungodly and fantastically free.' - Holly Pester, author of 'The Lodgers'

'A modern master of disturbance... A joyfully wicked writer' - TLS