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By Hélène Cixous

This ebook bargains a sequence of impressive textual reports of significant literary figures and "emergent" authors. Written in an available, direct variety the texts will be learn as thought for Helen Cixous's fictional and demanding practices. They not just introduce readers to writings from Brazil, Russia and japanese Europe, additionally they provide new, incisive insights into vintage works comparable to Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist" and Kafka's "Before the Law". whereas the choice of texts displays Cixous's ongoing drawback with the foundation of writing, with questions of affection and the present, and her insistence on excitement, in addition they show her curiosity in difficulties of historical past. The juxtaposition of texts throughout centuries and nationwide boundaires opens up interesting chances of a number of and fluid readings. Drawing on philosophy and psychoanalysis, this quantity of readings should be learn part via facet with "Reading With Clarice Lispector" as an ongoing meditation on ethics and poetics.

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