{"product_id":"double-oblivion-of-the-ourangoutang-9780745653907","title":"Double Oblivion of the OurangOutang","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Cixous is generally regarded as one of the leading, if not the leading French feminist author writing today.     * This book tells the story of how the author re-discovers a box from the past, containing a book manuscript from over fifty years ago. This leads to reflections on literary creativity, memory, identity and dreams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Few writers today can express the literary in the way Cixous can.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Cixous recalls anew many of the figures who have peopled her universe over the years: Joyce, Kafka, Stendhal, Derrida, her cats, her mother, her children. They return as new, doubles of their earlier selves. With characteristic humour, this 'Double Oblivion' explores how forgetting keeps the past not just alive but young.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMairéad Hanrahan, University College London\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\"Who tells the story: the narrator, distracted discoverer of her own first “larval” book and carer for a mother doughtily exploring the furthest reaches of her years? Or is it the narrator's companions and inner inhabitants? In addition to the Ourang-Outang, she makes room for Heathcliff, Stendhal, most especially her twin Jacques Derrida, not forgetting Rimbaud, Nefertiti, Proust and Poe. Or does the story emanate from the strange character of the Box? Where exactly is oblivion, reading’s double? Where does memory lodge? In what cupboards, words and elliptical lakes? Nothing escapes Cixous in her tender, unflinching attention to the duels with oblivion we all face.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSarah Wood, University of Kent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e Part One\u003cbr\u003e  I enter the Box\u003cbr\u003e  Urgent. Endurance 1\u003cbr\u003e  The Nameless Book\u003cbr\u003e  The Lake\u003cbr\u003e Part Two\u003cbr\u003e  I bring back \u003ci\u003eLe Prénom de Dieu\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  Another William","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404403646807,"sku":"9780745653907","price":42.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745653907.jpg?v=1730486359","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/double-oblivion-of-the-ourangoutang-9780745653907","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}