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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.

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"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 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 9780745643007
      978-0745643007
      ISBN-10 0745643000
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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
      "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 Contents
      Translator’s Notes.

      Author’s Foreword.

      I Before the End.

      II Benjamin’s Bedspring.

      III A Leave

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