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Beverley Bie Brahic (trans) and
HelÅ ne Cixous
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Polity Pr
Publication date
May 9, 2016
Pages
83
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781509500550
ISBN-10
1509500553
Dimensions
0.10 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.32 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$12.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: H?l?ne Cixous has dreamed for years of "The Book-I-Don't-Write," but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just out of reach. When Jacques Derrida told her the Book would get written one day, but differently, Cixous tells us she would see it "shining behind a veil, its indecipherable back, upright on heaven's bookshelf, its elegant silhouette, utterly foreign, utterly familiar, of future revenant. I've always thought it would come, naturally. When? After all my deaths? Just before, or just after, the last of my deaths."
One day, when she is no longer expecting it, the Book turns up: "Quickly, without taking my eyes off it, I copied it down, staying scrupulously close to its notations, its rhythms, its moments of silence. I found it. Just as you see it." She calls it Los, meaning "loose, detached" in German, her mother's tongue. Or Los like Carlos, the Latin American friend whose unexpected death in May 2014 takes her back to a life they shared and a time the Book will reconstitute in the present, abolishing time: "Suddenly, that morning, I saw the universe of The-Book-I-Don't-Write: it is an infinity of presents."
Los, A Chapter is a marvelous exploration of time and relationships. It reimagines scenes from Paris in the late sixties: its caf?s, its debates, its political turmoil. Both playful and serious, it is a book in a long line of novels ? from Balzac to Proust ? that create worlds both philosophical and concrete. In Los a lost time is regained.
One day, when she is no longer expecting it, the Book turns up: "Quickly, without taking my eyes off it, I copied it down, staying scrupulously close to its notations, its rhythms, its moments of silence. I found it. Just as you see it." She calls it Los, meaning "loose, detached" in German, her mother's tongue. Or Los like Carlos, the Latin American friend whose unexpected death in May 2014 takes her back to a life they shared and a time the Book will reconstitute in the present, abolishing time: "Suddenly, that morning, I saw the universe of The-Book-I-Don't-Write: it is an infinity of presents."
Los, A Chapter is a marvelous exploration of time and relationships. It reimagines scenes from Paris in the late sixties: its caf?s, its debates, its political turmoil. Both playful and serious, it is a book in a long line of novels ? from Balzac to Proust ? that create worlds both philosophical and concrete. In Los a lost time is regained.
Editions
Hardcover
With Beverley Bie Brahic (other contributor) |
from Polity Pr (May 9, 2016)
9781509500543 | details & prices | 83 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $45.00
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With Beverley Bie Brahic (other contributor) |
from Polity Pr (May 9, 2016)
9781509500550 | details & prices | 83 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.10 in. | 0.32 lbs | List price $12.95
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