We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a
sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come … the readiness is all.
Under the sign of Hamlet’s last act, Hélène Cixous, in her
eightieth year, launched her new book—and the latest chapter in
her Human Comedy, her Search for Lost Time. Surely one of the most
delightful, in its exposure of the seams of her extraordinary
craft, We Defy Augury finds the reader among familiar faces. In
these pages we encounter Eve, the indomitable mother; Jacques
Derrida, the faithful friend; children, neighbors; and always the
literary forebears: Montaigne, Diderot, Proust, and, in one moving
passage, Erich Maria Remarque. We Defy Augury moves easily from
Cixous’s Algerian childhood, to Bacharach in the Rhineland, to,
eerily, the Windows on the World restaurant atop the World Trade
Center, in the year 2000. In one of the most astonishing passages
in this tour-de-force performance of the art of digression, Cixous
proclaims: “My books are free in their movements and in their
choice of routes […] They are the product of many makers,
dreamed, dictated, cobbled together.” This unique experience,
which could only have come from the pen of Cixous, is now available
in English, and readers are sure to delight in this latest work by
one of France’s most celebrated writer-philosophers.
General
Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The French List |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
Firstpublished: |
2020 |
Authors: |
Hélène Cixous
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Translators: |
Beverley Bie Brahic
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
132 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85742-783-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-85742-783-0 |
Barcode: |
9780857427830 |
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