Letters from a Seducer Publisher / DK Spanning the 1960s to the

Spanning the 1960s to the present

and an ageing population

What is more special than a pair of hand-knitted socks

a miniaturist at the court of Elizabeth I

Letters from a Seducer Publisher / DK Spanning the 1960s to theIn Letters from a Seducer, Hilst describes the everyday life of Karl, a wealthy, erudite, and amoral man who seeks an answer to his incomprehension of life through sex. Karl writes and sends twenty provocative letters to Cordelia, his chaste sister. The letters' text becomes intertwined with the life of the poet Stamatius, who finds Karl's letters in the trash, as Hilst constructs an ingenious mirror play between the two that casts strange light on