{"product_id":"double-oblivion-of-the-ourangoutang-9780745653914","title":"Double Oblivion of the OurangOutang","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2009, the writer-narrator finds a Box. Within it lie the pages of her very first manuscript, pages she thought she had long since thrown away. \u003ci\u003eLe Prénom de Dieu\u003c\/i\u003e was the text that marked the start of her prodigious career, and yet for the narrator it is also the Nameless Book, the-Book-that-could-never-be-read, the book written by someone other than her. Now, once again, it heralds a beginning, as its discovery is the start of a journey into the past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe title, with its reference to the murderous Ourang-Outang of Edgar Allan Poe's \u003ci\u003eThe Murders in the Rue Morgue\u003c\/i\u003e, sets the scene: this is a detective story haunted by literary ghosts. At the very heart of literature lies the fascination with the enigma, the search for something that has been lost. Cixous illustrates this as she leads her reader on a hunt for the ultimate hidden treasure, in the company of an array of venerable predecessors from Saint-Simon, Proust and Stendhal to Shackleton, Poe and Jacques Derrid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\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":49404403679575,"sku":"9780745653914","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745653914.jpg?v=1730486359","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/double-oblivion-of-the-ourangoutang-9780745653914","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}