Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time: I. Los, a Chapter

by Hélène Cixous

Book Overview

H?(c)l?ne Cixous has dreamed for years of The Book-I-Don't-Write, but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just out of reach. When Jacques Derrida told her the Book would get written one day, but differently, Cixous tells us she would see it shining behind a veil, its indecipherable back, upright on heaven's bookshelf, its elegant silhouette, utterly foreign, utterly familiar, of future revenant. I've always...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509500545
• ISBN13: 9781509500543
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"