Book, Pink Notebook by Lori Lamby, O[LS]

Controversial, subversive and relentless from the first to the last page, this book began the obscene phase of the author of Júbilo, memória, novitiate of passion. At sixty years of age, four decades after debuting as a poet and unhappy with the timid reception of her work, Hilda Hilst took a radical stance. In 1990, with Lori Lamby's The Pink Notebook, he decided to say goodbye to “serious literature” and dedicate himself to writing “adorable jokes”. The narrator, Lori, is an eight-year-old girl who decides to become a prostitute, with her parents' consent, and record everything — really everything — in her diary. With acid humor and brutal self-awareness, she recounts the consequences of seduction and the pleasure that money brings her. Not surprisingly, the scandalous premise yielded the most diverse and emphatic interpretations from critics and continues to arouse the avid curiosity of readers. In the afterword to this edition, psychoanalyst Vera Iaconelli highlights how Hilda Hilst, by questioning our certainties and going beyond the limits of reason, wrote a work that impresses with its boldness and relevance.