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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- “very clean,fast ship”
- ISBN
- 9781531502898
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
153150289X
ISBN-13
9781531502898
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9057259872
Product Key Features
Book Title
Manhattan : Letters from Prehistory
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Movements / Deconstruction, Literary
Genre
Philosophy, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
This brilliant book is above all an investigation of the power of literature, of the ways in which fiction keeps secret what it seems to expose, lies and tells the truth at the same time. Hélène Cixous infuses this haunting story of deception with her unique poetic style, incisive wit, and philosophical acumen., An affecting novel about how the heart--an organ that doesn't just bleed, but reads and writes--is given and taken, and the scars it bears., "A remarkable sequence of meditations on memory and identity, presence and absence, the said and the unsaid, from one of the most significant and original writers in Europe today." ---Ian Blyth, University of St. Andrews
Table Of Content
Prologue vii Certes a Sacrifice 1 The Eye-Patch 23 A yellow Folder 35 I Will Not Write This Book 41 The Evidence 53 I Loved Above All Literature 59 The Necropolis 71 More and More Notebooks 83 I Am Naked 95 The Charm of the Malady 103 Folly usa 115 Donne Is Done 125 Room 91 133 The Vroom Vroom Period 147 Elpenor's Dream 161 After the End 177 Translator's Notes 185
Synopsis
The 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 a counterfeit genius.
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