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Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time: I. Los, A Chapter
Helene Cixous
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Paperback. For years Helene Cixous has been dreaming about The Book-I-Don t-Write but each time she approaches The Book, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don t Write is always just out of reach. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138. .
Helene Cixous has dreamed for years of The Book-I-Don't-Write, but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just out of reach. When Jacques Derrida told her the Book would get written one day, but differently, Cixous tells us she would see it shining behind a veil, its indecipherable back, upright on heaven's bookshelf, its elegant silhouette, utterly foreign, utterly familiar, of future revenant. I've always thought it would come, naturally. When? After all my deaths? Just before, or just after, the last of my deaths. One ... Read more
Helene Cixous has dreamed for years of The Book-I-Don't-Write, but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just out of reach. When Jacques Derrida told her the Book would get written one day, but differently, Cixous tells us she would see it shining behind a veil, its indecipherable back, upright on heaven's bookshelf, its elegant silhouette, utterly foreign, utterly familiar, of future revenant. I've always thought it would come, naturally. When? After all my deaths? Just before, or just after, the last of my deaths. One ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
138g
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509500550
SKU
V9781509500550
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About Helene Cixous
Helene Cixous is one of the world's leading feminist writers. She is the founder and former director of the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University.
Reviews for Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time: I. Los, A Chapter
Los, A Chapter is a lyrical meditation on the fragility of the human as well as on the palimpsestic way that our loves and lovers overlay each other in our psyche and repeatedly reappear without clear distinctions. Cixous leads the reader on by her literary indeed semi-Joycean verbal dexterity, while at the same time conveying a ... Read more