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Helene Cixous is arguably the most insightful and unbridled reader of Jacques Derrida today. In "Insister, " she brings a unique mixture of scholarly erudition, theoretical speculation, and breathtaking textual explication to an extremely close reading of Derrida's work. At the same time, "Insister" is an extraordinarily poetic meditation, a work of literature and of mourning for Jacques Derrida the person, who was a close friend and accomplic...

Helene Cixous is an influential theorist, but a profound misunderstanding of her work persists in many circles. Marta Segarra draws on a liberal selection of Cixous' writings to reveal the broader contexts, in particular her method of mixing autobiographical & fictional narrative with philosophical & poetic reflections.

Tells 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.

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...

Anfang der 90er Jahre werden die Mutter und die Tante der Erzählerin - beide nunmehr über achtzig Jahre alt - von der Stadtverwaltung Osnabrück in ihre Geburtsstadt eingeladen. Sie gehören zu den letzten Überlebenden der ehemals florierenden jüdischen Gemeinde der Stadt, die nun einen Versuch der Wiedergutmachung unternimmt. Die Reise wird für die beiden Schwestern zur Katastrophe, deren Gewalt die Erinnerung an vormalige, nie besprochene Kata...

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.

Philippines is Hélène Cixous′s reverie or ′true dreaming′ which intertwines Freud′s uneasy views on telepathy, autobiographical memories conflating Algeria and Paris, childhood and adult life, shared with her brother ′Pete′, and literary evocations from Proust and George du Maurier′s forgotten novel Peter Ibbetson.

Philippines is Hélène Cixous's reverie or 'true dreaming' which intertwines Freud's uneasy views on telepathy, autobiographical memories conflating Algeria and Paris, childhood and adult life, shared with her brother 'Pete', and literary evocations from Proust and George du Maurier's forgotten novel Peter Ibbetson. Amid telepathic conversations, real or imagined, and life events uncannily answering one another from a distance, Cixous's dense ...

Zero′s Neighbour is Hélène Cixous′s tribute to the minimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness in his writing like nobody else: Samuel Beckett.

This book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir, " by Helene Cixous is an account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia, Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" muses on a host of motifs, including his varied responses to "Savoir.

Deutsche Übersetzung eines Kapitels aus dem Roman "L'Ange au secret. Des femmes." von Hélène Cixous, erschienen in Paris 1991. Moderne französische Philsosophie in Romanform.

A compelling work of autobiographical fiction, Hélène Cixous's Hemlock weaves tragedy and comedy in its exploration of various human attachments: between an elderly but still truculent mother and her writer-daughter, between the mother and her sister, and between the writer and her vanished but nonetheless intensely present friend, Jacques Derrida, whose death is movingly evoked. "Here, " she says in her preface, "the criss-crossing paths of m...

A compelling work of autobiographical fiction, Hélène Cixous's Hemlock weaves tragedy and comedy in its exploration of various human attachments: between an elderly but still truculent mother and her writer-daughter, between the mother and her sister, and between the writer and her vanished but nonetheless intensely present friend, Jacques Derrida, whose death is movingly evoked. "Here, " she says in her preface, "the criss-crossing paths of m...