We Defy Augury
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We Defy Augury begins by recalling the year 2020. It moves easily from the authors childhood, to Bacharach in the Rhineland, to,the World Trade Center, in the year 2000. This book uses the art of digression to give an experience of a work cobbled together by many makers.
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We Defy Augury begins by recalling the year 2020. It moves easily from the authors childhood, to Bacharach in the Rhineland, to,the World Trade Center, in the year 2000. This book uses the art of digression to give an experience of a work cobbled together by many makers.
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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.
| Author: | Hélène Cixous |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780857427830 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 112+xii |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Publisher: | Seagull Books |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | United States of America |
About the Authors
The author was born in Oran, Algeria, and is emeritus professor of literature at the Université Paris VIII, where she founded and directed the Centre de recherches en études féminines. She is the author of more than seventy works of fiction, plays, and collections of critical essays; recent titles in English translation include So Close, Zero's Neighbour: Sam Beckett, Hemlock, and Philippines.
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