{"product_id":"manhattan-letters-from-prehistory-paperback","title":"Manhattan: Letters from Prehistory - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHélène Cixous\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBeverley Bie Brahic\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eManhattan\u003c\/i\u003e is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University's Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no-nonsense mother await her return. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A young European intellectual's first contact with America and the city of New York are the background of this story. The experience of Manhattan haunts this labyrinth of a book as, over a period of thirty-five years, its narrator visits and revisits Central Park and a half-buried squirrel, the Statue of Liberty and a never again to be found hotel in the vicinity of Morningside Heights: a journey into memory in which everything is never the same. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, \u003ci\u003eManhattan \u003c\/i\u003edeploys with gusto all the techniques for which Cixous's fiction and essays are known: rapid juxtapositions of time and place, narrative and description, analysis and philosophical reflection. It investigates subjects Cixous has spent her life probing: reading, writing, and the \"omnipotence-other\" seductions of literature; a family's flight from Nazi Germany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with a counterfeit genius.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A luminous book. A poignant literary work.\"--\u003cb\u003eAlessia Ricciardi\u003c\/b\u003e, Northwestern University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A remarkable sequence of meditations on memory and identity, presence and absence, the said and the unsaid, from one of the most significant and original writers in Europe today.\"--\u003cb\u003eIan Blyth\u003c\/b\u003e, University of St. Andrews \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An affecting novel about how the heart--an organ that doesn't just bleed, but reads and writes--is given and taken, and the scars it bears.\"--\u003cb\u003eM\/C Reviews \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eManhattan\u003c\/i\u003e is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University's Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. The experience of Manhattan haunts this labyrinth of a book as, over a period of thirty-five years, its narrator visits and revisits Central Park and a half-buried squirrel, the Statue of Liberty and a never again to be found hotel in the vicinity of Morningside Heights: a journey into memory in which everything is never the same. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, \u003ci\u003eManhattan \u003c\/i\u003edeploys with gusto all the techniques for which Cixous's fiction and essays are known: rapid juxtapositions of time and place, narrative and description, analysis and philosophical reflection. It investigates subjects Cixous has spent her life probing: reading, writing, and the \"omnipotence-other\" seductions of literature; a family's flight from Nazi Germany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with a counterfeit genius. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHélène Cixous\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder of the first Women's Studies program in France, at the University of Paris VIII. Since 1967, she has published more than fifty \"fictions,\" as well as numerous plays and works of criticism. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eOsnabrück Station to Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\"Coming to Writing\" and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Cixous\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHélène Cixous (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHélène Cixous\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder of the first Women's Studies program in France, at the University of Paris VIII. Since 1967, she has published more than fifty \"fictions,\" as well as numerous works of criticism on literature and many essays on the visual arts. She has long been a collaborator with Ariane Mnouchkine at the Théâtre du Soleil, and a number of her plays have been published. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eOsnabrück Station to Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eComing to Writing and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Cixous\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeverley Bie Brahic (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBeverley Bie Brahic\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Paris. She is the translator of Hélène Cixous's \u003ci\u003ePortrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDream I Tell You\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReveries of the Wild Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Day I Wasn't There\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of a volume of poems, \u003ci\u003eAgainst Gravity\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42718738579519,"sku":"9781531502898","price":20.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/673231082239456a87492700aded32f2.webp?v=1765083077","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/manhattan-letters-from-prehistory-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}