In 2009, the writer-narrator finds a Box. Within it lie the
pages of her very first manuscript, pages she thought she had long
since thrown away. "Le Prenom de Dieu" was the text that marked the
start of her prodigious career, and yet for the narrator it is also
the Nameless Book, the-Book-that-could-never-be-read, the book
written by someone other than her. Now, once again, it heralds a
beginning, as its discovery is the start of a journey into the
past.
The title, with its reference to the murderous Ourang-Outang of
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," sets the scene:
this is a detective story haunted by literary ghosts. At the very
heart of literature lies the fascination with the enigma, the
search for something that has been lost. Cixous illustrates this as
she leads her reader on a hunt for the ultimate hidden treasure, in
the company of an array of venerable predecessors from Saint-Simon,
Proust and Stendhal to Shackleton, Poe and Jacques Derrida.
"Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang" is a text about
literature. It speaks of the books you read and the books you
write, those you remember and those you forget, those you fear and
those you revere. It is also a powerful, evocative tale of
beginnings and endings, of remembering and forgetting, of things
and their doubles.
In a densely woven narrative, Cixous's latest text focuses on
the extraordinary voyage that is literary creation, and in doing so
also explores the themes of memory, loss and subjectivity.
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