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Manhattan: Letters from Prehistory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780823227761)
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xThe luminous tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors
Manhattan 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, as Jacques Derrida writes, "a counterfeit genius."Author: Hélène Cixous
ISBN-10: 0823227766
ISBN-13: 9780823227761
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2007
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/15/2007 pg. 116
By Hélène Cixous
xHélène Cixous (Author)
Hélène 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 Théâtre du Soleil and a number of her plays have been published. Her many books include 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 Hélène 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.
Hélène 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 Théâtre du Soleil and a number of her plays have been published. Her many books include 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 Hélène 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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