House of the Night: the Hilda Hilst’s Residence

Abstract

This article investigates the image of the night in Hilda Hilst poetry, reverberating in the exhausting pursuit of writing, in loving solitude, in political indignation, in dreamlike visions. Active element in Casa do Sol, place of the workshop of the word and the exercise of contemplation, the night is valued for illuminating the unconscious and releasing the imaginative spirit, promoting the brilliant language of poetry. To move forward with this theme, support was sought from interdisciplinary fields, such as philosophy, anthropology and psychology. In these fields, and in literature, the modern understanding of the night theme is indebted to the Novalisian nocturnal conception.