Love Itself: In the Letterbox - Brossura

Cixous, Helene

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0745639895 ISBN 13: 9780745639895

Casa editrice: Polity Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Love's memories, love recalling itself in letters lost and found over an interval of forty years: Cixous's writer-narrator advances here far into a labyrinth of passions long ago delivered and yet still arriving through the mail, through letters and literature, in other words, the poetry of the post. As for the lovers' returning scenes, they have their addresses in Paris (rue Olivier de Serres, Avenue de Choisy, street names that endlessly feed love's unconscious language) and in New York, but also in a lost oasis of the Egyptian desert during the Napoleonic wars, in Athens and along the shores of a great lake centuries ago in the country of myth. The lovers are poets or soldiers, philosophers or students madly in love with poetry and poets. They are as well mermaids or panthers. Panthers? Yes, for it is the passion of the animal that drives all these lovers to bare themselves, and sometimes their claws, before the beloved. Misunderstandings are often, even inevitably the result. Seconded and witnessed by her passionate, truth-telling cats, Cixous's narrator-writer returns unerringly to moments of errancy inflicted on address and language, those errors and faults when love, perhaps, is listening only to itself, without subject or object, lover or beloved, just love itself, l'amour meme, l'amour m'aime, love loving me, in the letter box of memory.

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Recensione:

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

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

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

L'autore:

Hélène Cixous is one of the world's leading writers. She is the founder and former director of the Centre de Recherche en Études Fémininesat the Université de Paris VIII.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Polity Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0745639895
• ISBN 13: 9780745639895
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 142