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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet's last act, Hélène Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new bookand the latest chapter in her Human Comedy, her Search for Lost Time. Surely one of the most delightful, in its exposure of the seams of her extraordinary craft, We Defy Augury finds the reader among familiar faces. In these pages we encounter Eve, the indomitable mother; Jacques Derrida, the faithful friend; children, neighbors; and always the literary forebears: Montaigne, Diderot, Proust, and, in one moving passage, Erich Maria Remarque. We Defy Augury moves easily from Cixous's Algerian childhood, to Bacharach in the Rhineland, to, eerily, the Windows on the World restaurant atop the World Trade Center, in the year 2000. In one of the most astonishing passages in this tour-de-force performance of the art of digression, Cixous proclaims: My books are free in their m

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We Defy Augury

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      Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd
      Published 27 October 2020
      ISBN-13 9780857427830
      978-0857427830
      ISBN-10 0857427830
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      We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet's last act, Hélène Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new bookand the latest chapter in her Human Comedy, her Search for Lost Time. Surely one of the most delightful, in its exposure of the seams of her extraordinary craft, We Defy Augury finds the reader among familiar faces. In these pages we encounter Eve, the indomitable mother; Jacques Derrida, the faithful friend; children, neighbors; and always the literary forebears: Montaigne, Diderot, Proust, and, in one moving passage, Erich Maria Remarque. We Defy Augury moves easily from Cixous's Algerian childhood, to Bacharach in the Rhineland, to, eerily, the Windows on the World restaurant atop the World Trade Center, in the year 2000. In one of the most astonishing passages in this tour-de-force performance of the art of digression, Cixous proclaims: My books are free in their m

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