"Isn't it ... particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work?"
Frederic-Yves Jeannet asks Helene Cixous in this fascinating book
of interviews. " I]t's only in writing, on paper, ... that I reach
the most unknown, the strangest, the most advanced part of me for
me. I feel closer to my own mystery in the aura of writing it,"
Cixous responds.
These conversations, which took place over three years and cover
the creative process behind Cixous's fictional writing, illuminate
the genesis and particular genius of one of France's most original
writers. Cixous muses on her "coming to writing," from her first
publications to her recent acclaim for a series of fictional texts
that spring, as, she insists all true writing does, from her life:
the loss of her father when she was a child, and her relationship
with her mother, now in her tenth decade, as well as with such
friends as Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan. The conversations
delve into Cixous's career as an academic in Paris and abroad, her
summer retreats to the Bordeaux region to write uninterrupted for
two months, her work with Ariane Mnouchkine's Theatre du Soleil,
her political engagements and her dreams. Readers and writers who
have followed Cixous's path-blazing career as a fiction writer who
crosses boundaries of genre and gender while posing essential
questions about the nature of narrative and life will find this a
book that cannot be put down.
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