Máscaras mortuárias em Hilda Hilst

This work analyses the representation of death under the sign of the “mask” in Hilda Hilst’s poetics. Among the selected topics that are taken into consideration we focus on the discursive and poetic metaphors seen in Da morte. Odes mínimas (1980), and also the spacial transposition seen in the writer`s house and grave. Another objective of this article is to consider how the author elaborates her own death and also the death of her work in interviews given to the press. The theoretical approaches used are Biografema, by Roland Barthes and Mortes imaginárias, by Michel Schneider