{"product_id":"encounters-9780745653860","title":"Encounters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsn''t it  particularly difficult to ''speak'' of your work? Frédéric-Yves Jeannet asks Hélène Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. [I]t''s only in writing, on paper,  that I reach the most unknown, the strangest, the most advanced part of me for me. I feel closer to my own mystery in the aura of writing it, Cixous responds.  \u003cp\u003eThese conversations, which took place over three years and cover the creative process behind Cixous's fictional writing, illuminate the genesis and particular genius of one of France's most original writers. Cixous muses on her coming to writing, from her first publications to her recent acclaim for a series of fictional texts that spring, as, she insists all true writing does, from her life: the loss of her father when she was a child, and her relationship with her mother, now in her tenth decade, as well as with such friends as Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan. The conversations delve into Cixous's career as an academic in Paris and abroad, her sum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This wonderfully sympathetic conversation about writing is like a magic animal in a fairytale. Follow, and it will take you through the diverse joys, dangers, surprises and landscapes of Cixous's writing life, towards the intransigent questions that animate everybody who lives.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSarah Wood, The University of Kent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“These interviews, which take Cixous back over her writing history, are fascinating encounters as much between the author and her (past) self as with Frédéric-Yves Jeannet. \u003ci\u003eEncounters\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in Cixous.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eMairéad Hanrahan, University College London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGod\u003cbr\u003eAnd the Whale\u003cbr\u003eAlready everything was there\u003cbr\u003eDwelling\u003cbr\u003eWith\u003cbr\u003eSpew into the sea\u003cbr\u003eOff age's shore\u003cbr\u003ePeruvia\u003cbr\u003eOf maps \u0026amp; of prints\u003cbr\u003eLazarus\u003cbr\u003eExpire\u003cbr\u003eWrite in Tongues\u003cbr\u003eFaustes\u003cbr\u003eClearsee\u003cbr\u003eUnfinish the Story \u0026amp; History\u003cbr\u003eJust before the paper\u003cbr\u003eThe forgetread\u003cbr\u003eOther addresses\u003cbr\u003eThe fear of names\u003cbr\u003eDragonflies\u003cbr\u003eSlight uneasiness the masculine\u003cbr\u003ePreteritions\u003cbr\u003eBut the Earth goes round, not too badly\u003cbr\u003eOur centuries\u003cbr\u003eThe Shelves\u003cbr\u003eWalls\u003cbr\u003eThe body writes\u003cbr\u003eMeasures\u003cbr\u003eTempo\u003cbr\u003eThe grace the galloping\u003cbr\u003eGod's Returns","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404403581271,"sku":"9780745653860","price":42.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745653860.jpg?v=1730486359","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/encounters-9780745653860","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}