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Manhattan: Letters from Prehistory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781531502898)
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xManhattan is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University's Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no-nonsense mother await her return.
A young European intellectual's first contact with America and the city of New York are the background of this story. The experience of Manhattan haunts this labyrinth of a book as, over a period of thirty-five years, its narrator visits and revisits Central Park and a half-buried squirrel, the Statue of Liberty and a never again to be found hotel in the vicinity of Morningside Heights: a journey into memory in which everything is never the same. Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, Manhattan deploys with gusto all the techniques for which Cixous's fiction and essays are known: rapid juxtapositions of time and place, narrative and description, analysis and philosophical reflection. It investigates subjects Cixous has spent her life probing: reading, writing, and the "omnipotence-other" seductions of literature; a family's flight from Nazi Germany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with a counterfeit genius.Author: H駘鈩e Cixous
ISBN-10: 153150289X
ISBN-13: 9781531502898
Publisher: New York Relit
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d
By H駘鈩e Cixous
xH駘鈩e Cixous (Author)
H駘鈩e Cixous is the founder of the first Women's Studies program in France, at the University of Paris VIII. Since 1967, she has published more than fifty "fictions," as well as numerous works of criticism on literature and many essays on the visual arts. She has long been a collaborator with Ariane Mnouchkine at the Th鰾tre du Soleil, and a number of her plays have been published. Her many books include Osnabr?k Station to Jerusalem, "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays, and The Portable Cixous. Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator)
Beverley Bie Brahic lives in Paris. She is the translator of H駘鈩e Cixous's Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, Dream I Tell You, Reveries of the Wild Woman, and The Day I Wasn't There, and the author of a volume of poems, Against Gravity.
H駘鈩e Cixous is the founder of the first Women's Studies program in France, at the University of Paris VIII. Since 1967, she has published more than fifty "fictions," as well as numerous works of criticism on literature and many essays on the visual arts. She has long been a collaborator with Ariane Mnouchkine at the Th鰾tre du Soleil, and a number of her plays have been published. Her many books include Osnabr?k Station to Jerusalem, "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays, and The Portable Cixous. Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator)
Beverley Bie Brahic lives in Paris. She is the translator of H駘鈩e Cixous's Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, Dream I Tell You, Reveries of the Wild Woman, and The Day I Wasn't There, and the author of a volume of poems, Against Gravity.
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