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A major new book by one of the leading feminist writers in France today. Cixous explores the themes of love, memory, language and loss. This is a work of literary fiction and at the same time a philosophical work: like Sartre, Camus and other great writers, Cixous blends together fiction and philosophy.

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"A rarefied examination of love, passion and the intermittences of the heart, beautifully translated by Peggy Kamuf."
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

"A profoundly intense, individual and brilliant piece of work."
David Marx Book Reviews



Table of Contents

I Olivier de Serres—A Single Passion, Two Witnesses

II The Cauliflower of the Lautaret

III The First Lucidity

IV One Time, Avenue de Choisy, Echo, My Love

V First Letters

VI Faithfully Forever

VII When I Become a Frenetic Keeper

IX On February 12th I Committed an Error

Love Itself In the Letterbox

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 04/07/2008
      ISBN13: 9780745639888, 978-0745639888
      ISBN10: 0745639887
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A major new book by one of the leading feminist writers in France today. Cixous explores the themes of love, memory, language and loss. This is a work of literary fiction and at the same time a philosophical work: like Sartre, Camus and other great writers, Cixous blends together fiction and philosophy.

      Trade Review
      "A rarefied examination of love, passion and the intermittences of the heart, beautifully translated by Peggy Kamuf."
      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

      "A profoundly intense, individual and brilliant piece of work."
      David Marx Book Reviews



      Table of Contents

      I Olivier de Serres—A Single Passion, Two Witnesses

      II The Cauliflower of the Lautaret

      III The First Lucidity

      IV One Time, Avenue de Choisy, Echo, My Love

      V First Letters

      VI Faithfully Forever

      VII When I Become a Frenetic Keeper

      IX On February 12th I Committed an Error

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