Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic is a compelling new volume in H l ne Cixous's search for lost time. Readers of earlier volumes - Hemlock and Hyperdream, among others - will reconnect with familiar characters: Eve, the elderly mother now in her hundredth year, H l ne, the daughter, who never expected to become a mother at 70, and the brother, childhood companion and rival. She has almost no time to write.
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