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Helene Cixous is one of France's leading contemporary writers. This new book is a work of fiction about the most implacable of human certainties - death. It explores death, mourning and loss by means of a poetic fiction: imagining a magic telephone through which one can open up a lifeline to departed loved ones.

Trade Review
"Moving, complex and lyrical, it is a crucial work."
The Herald

"The act of writing, Cixous claimed, 'is linked to the experience of disappearance, to the feeling of having lost the key to the world'. Hyperdream offers a world full of such absence ... It hovers, dreamily between novel and memoir."
Times Literary Supplement

"Hélène Cixous is today the greatest writer in what I shall call, if I may, my language, French. And I weigh my words in saying this. For a very great writer must be a poet-thinker, very much a poet and a very thinking poet."
Jacques Derrida



Table of Contents
Translator’s Notes.

Author’s Foreword.

I Before the End.

II Benjamin’s Bedspring.

III A Leave

Hyperdream

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 13 February 2009
      ISBN-13 9780745642994
      978-0745642994
      ISBN-10 0745642993
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      Philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Helene Cixous is one of France's leading contemporary writers. This new book is a work of fiction about the most implacable of human certainties - death. It explores death, mourning and loss by means of a poetic fiction: imagining a magic telephone through which one can open up a lifeline to departed loved ones.

      Trade Review
      "Moving, complex and lyrical, it is a crucial work."
      The Herald

      "The act of writing, Cixous claimed, 'is linked to the experience of disappearance, to the feeling of having lost the key to the world'. Hyperdream offers a world full of such absence ... It hovers, dreamily between novel and memoir."
      Times Literary Supplement

      "Hélène Cixous is today the greatest writer in what I shall call, if I may, my language, French. And I weigh my words in saying this. For a very great writer must be a poet-thinker, very much a poet and a very thinking poet."
      Jacques Derrida



      Table of Contents
      Translator’s Notes.

      Author’s Foreword.

      I Before the End.

      II Benjamin’s Bedspring.

      III A Leave

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