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Love Itself: In the Letter Box
Helene Cixous
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Description for Love Itself: In the Letter Box
Paperback. A major new book by one of the leading feminist writers in France today. Cixous explores the themes of love, memory, language and loss. This is a work of literary fiction and at the same time a philosophical work: like Sartre, Camus and other great writers, Cixous blends together fiction and philosophy. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy; Chevalier, Marion Frances. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 218.
Love's memories, love recalling itself in letters lost and found over an interval of forty years: Cixous's writer-narrator advances here far into a labyrinth of passions long ago delivered and yet still arriving through the mail, through letters and literature, in other words, the poetry of the post. As for the lovers' returning scenes, they have their addresses in Paris (rue Olivier de Serres, Avenue de Choisy, street names that endlessly feed love's unconscious language) and in New York, but also in a lost oasis of the Egyptian desert during the Napoleonic wars, in Athens and along the shores of ... Read more
Love's memories, love recalling itself in letters lost and found over an interval of forty years: Cixous's writer-narrator advances here far into a labyrinth of passions long ago delivered and yet still arriving through the mail, through letters and literature, in other words, the poetry of the post. As for the lovers' returning scenes, they have their addresses in Paris (rue Olivier de Serres, Avenue de Choisy, street names that endlessly feed love's unconscious language) and in New York, but also in a lost oasis of the Egyptian desert during the Napoleonic wars, in Athens and along the shores of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
148
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
218 g
Number of Pages
148
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745639895
SKU
V9780745639895
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About Helene Cixous
Helene Cixous is one of the world's leading writers. She is the founder and former director of the Centre de Recherche en Etudes Femininesat the Universite de Paris VIII.
Reviews for Love Itself: In the Letter Box
A rarefied examination of love, passion and the intermittences of the heart, beautifully translated by Peggy Kamuf. Times Literary Supplement Helene Cixous is today the greatest writer in what I shall call, if I may, my language, French. And I weigh my words in saying this. For a very great ... Read more