Hilda Hilst

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Apr 21, 1930 (95 years old)
Death date
Feb 04, 2004

Hilda Hilst

Known For

Hilda Hilst Pede Contato
1h 15m
Movie 2018

Hilda Hilst Pede Contato

Documentary about the poet, writer and playwright Hilda Hilst, considered by critics as one of the most important voices of the Portuguese language of the twentieth century. Through the use of personal sound and image files, interviews, meetings and fictional interventions, we will seek the memory and the presence of Hilda Hilst in her daily life at Casa do Sol, the farm where she lived in Campinas.

Biography

Hilda Hilst was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright. She is lauded as one of the most important Portuguese-language authors of the twentieth century. Her work touches on the themes of mysticism, insanity, the body, eroticism, and female sexual liberation. Hilst greatly revered the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett and the influence of their styles like stream of consciousness and fractured reality in her own work.

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