By Hélène Cixous
This can be the 1st actually consultant choice of texts by way of Helene Cixous. The gigantic items variety greatly throughout her whole oeuvre, and contain essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. prepared helpfully in chronological order, the extracts span 20 years of highbrow concept and exhibit essentially the advance of 1 of the main artistic and marvelous minds of the 20 th century.
With a foreword via Jacques Derrida, a preface through Cixous herself, and top notch editorial fabric by way of Susan dealers, The Helene Cixous Reader is destined to develop into a key textual content of feminist writing.
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But still the limit of the limit appears, in the text which it incites and which it blocks off at the same time. Of Joyce, I say that he keeps as close as possible to that unheard-of place until suddenly the marvelous openings appear, in Ulysses, from which Finnegans Wake is catapulted forth; this is the text of texts, the readableuntranslatable. Here an extremity is invented. This non-place which undoes and reconstructs itself is given to behold to the mass of singularities, the multiple mutating figures which constitute Stephen Bloom, in one of the most funnily, and pitilessly, deconstructive parts of Ulysses: the place called “Ithaca,” point of no-return home, so that those returning there are carried off by the text which traverses them, and with which their bodies form a dazzling diaspora.
I concentrate myself around the lips, I am convinced, closed, dark, warm. The mouth is testing, the upper lip curves me a slight question which throws me back ever so slightly to the left beneath it, and not to the right or in front. This is where I am at the moment I pull myself together; it’s all done, I make a sign, the mouth says not one word more, we understand each other, but that makes my grief explode: I’m left so alone and black when it vanishes. I am there, no doubt about it, but I miss it.
But still the limit of the limit appears, in the text which it incites and which it blocks off at the same time. Of Joyce, I say that he keeps as close as possible to that unheard-of place until suddenly the marvelous openings appear, in Ulysses, from which Finnegans Wake is catapulted forth; this is the text of texts, the readableuntranslatable. Here an extremity is invented. This non-place which undoes and reconstructs itself is given to behold to the mass of singularities, the multiple mutating figures which constitute Stephen Bloom, in one of the most funnily, and pitilessly, deconstructive parts of Ulysses: the place called “Ithaca,” point of no-return home, so that those returning there are carried off by the text which traverses them, and with which their bodies form a dazzling diaspora.
