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by Helene Cixous and Helene Cixous

Routledge

Due/Published December 1998, 224 pages, paper

ISBN 0415179793

You know, new Cixous essays. Here is what Routledge is saying:

"Signifying through a tissue of philosphical metaphor, poetic power, critical insight and disarming lightness, Cixous' writing is taken up in a reading pursuit, chasing across borders and through languages on the heels of works by authors such as Stendhal, Joyce, Derrida, Lispector, Tsvetaeva, and Rembrandt, da Vinci, Picasso -- works that share an elusive movement in spite of striking differences.

Along the way these essays explore a broad range of poetico-philosophical questions that have long been circulating in the Cixousian universe: love's labors lost and found, feminine hours, autobiographies of writing, animal-human family ties, the prehistory of the work of are . . . woven into a performance of writing at the intersection of contemporary Western history and a singularity named Hélène Cixous.

Evoking her writing "origins," the economy of a departure from Algeria (so as) never to arrive, and the psychomythical events that are engraved as fertile woulds into the body's many bodies, this book is an extraordinary writer's testimony to our lives and times."

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