The Terrible But Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia

by Hélène Cixous

Book Overview

No contemporary French feminist has made a bigger impact in America than H l ne Cixous. Brilliant, bold, and combative, author of numerous novels and a gargantuan study of James Joyce, and sponsor of a series of notorious seminars at the University of Paris about women's writing, she has exploited the roles of femme fatale and maitresse d'education in a career that has been spectacularly defiant and productive. Sihanouk is one of Cixous's most ambitious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803214553
• ISBN13: 9780803214552
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.

Customer Reviews

historical events projected in a scripted piece; unique

Though not especially dense in historical detail (and likely was not intended to be given the format of the piece) this work yields nuances of personality which are easily appreciated by readers familiar with recent Combodian political history