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Book SynopsisHelene 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"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 "Moving, complex and lyrical, it is a crucial work."
The Herald
"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 ContentsTranslator’s Notes.
Author’s Foreword.
I Before the End.
II Benjamin’s Bedspring.
III A Leave
