Coming to Writing and Other Essays

by Hélène Cixous

Book Overview

This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, here H l ne Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexes--viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning--manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts. These superb translations do full justice to Cixous's prose, to its songlike flow and allusive brilliance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674144376
• ISBN13: 9780674144378
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

again and again

When I see orange and russet leaves wet with the mist of a rainy day in Central Park I feel as happy to be alive as I do when I read Cixous' essay "The Last Painting," included in this book. I imagine the shimmering surface of the Cathedral at Rouen. I feel glad that a human can write and think with such clarity and beauty and that I can read her words.

feminist critical theory

_Coming to Writing & Other Essays_ is a collection of essays dealing with the relationship between a marginalized person and writing-- that is between a person whose voice has been silenced and her voice. Cixous' writing is frequently narrative, rather than expository, so the text reads like so many short stories. She is irreverent and refreshing in the world of drily written critical thought.