At such a dark hour

The intense and mystical friendship between Caio Fernando Abreu and Paula Dip led to the author's possession in early 2010 of a packet of letters that Caio Fernando Abreu sent to Hilda Hilst between 1971 and 1990. Unpublished, some still in sealed envelopes, handwritten on yellowed paper eaten away by termites, or typed, they were in the possession of Bahian poet Antonio Nahud Júnior, who, like Caio, lived with Hilda at the Casa do Sol, which Hilda gave him after a fight with Caio, when she wanted to burn everything down and banish him from her life. Confessional and intimate, the content of these letters revealed the great friendship and true literary love affair between the two. In such a dark time, it is a collection of letters full of expression and a transcription of the bond between these two great writers, which Paula presents to us with her usual sensitivity.