An inventive literary account of Cixous¿s remarkable journey to her mother¿s birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust.
An inventive literary account of Cixous's remarkable journey to her mother's birthplaceWinner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationFor about eighty years, the Jonas family of Osnabrück were part of a small but vibrant Jewish community in this mid-size city of Lower Saxony. After the war, Osnabrück counted not a single Jew. Most had been deported and murdered in the camps, others emigrated if they could and if they ...
Epic and fleeting, tender and excruciating, this is a beautifully strange account of the death of Cixous's centenarian mother. Everywhere in these pages we feel the urgency of writing and of life. In Peggy Kamuf's limpid and remarkable translation, this book constitutes an indispensable addition to Cixous's oeuvre on writing, love and the maternal unconscious.'
Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex
Mother Homer is Dead ... was written in the i...
Epic and fleeting, tender and excruciating, this is a beautifully strange account of the death of Cixous's centenarian mother. Everywhere in these pages we feel the urgency of writing and of life. In Peggy Kamuf's limpid and remarkable translation, this book constitutes an indispensable addition to Cixous's oeuvre on writing, love and the maternal unconscious.'
Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex
Mother Homer is Dead ... was written in the i...
Exciting, passionate writing. A refusal to mourn her very close friend Derrida's death, it begins with a telling of a dream in which Derrida and Cixous feature as footballing mice." Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, The Independent. In 2003 Derrida had promised to attend a colloquium on 'Reading Cixous and Derrida Reading Each Other/Themselves'. His untimely death in 2004 meant that it was, as Cixous writes, 'Impossible to keep one's word on this subjec...
In Insister, Hlne Cixous brings a unique mixture of theoretical speculation, breath-taking textual explication and scholarly erudition to an extremely close reading of Derrida's work, always attentive to the details of his thinking. 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 accomplice of Cixous's from the beginning of their...
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...
