Twists and turns in the heart's Antarctic / Hélène Cixous ; translated by Beverley Bie Brahic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cixous, Hélène, 1937- author.

Standardized Title:

Revirements dans l'antartique du coeur. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

x, 180 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Polity, [2014]

Summary:

Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic is a compelling new volume in Hélène Cixous's search for lost time. Readers of earlier volumes - Hemlock and Hyperdream, among others - will reconnect with familiar characters: Eve, the elderly mother now in her hundredth year, Hélène, the daughter, who never expected to become a mother at 70, and O, the brother, childhood companion and rival. She has almost no time to write. "You hate me! You hate me!" someone shouts. "You want me dead!" Is that a revolver on the table? Bang! Shot or door slammed? The brother storms out. The Family is destroying itself. Twists and Turns, like all Cixous's books, is a many-faceted text, whose narrative spins its webs in corners familiar to Cixous readers: corners with books and writers - Montaigne, Proust, Kafka, Derrida; a theater and plays; friendship, and love. It is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, "With love's strength one hates." And yet, "Everything twists and turns": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I

O. Announces the Murder 3

Turnstile - hoping without hope 23

The Other Cold 37

The Family Is Destroying Itself 57

Same Song Different Play 73

Xou, the Author 89

My Right Arm Hurts 105

Part II

We'll Not Go 113

Part III

Peace! 147

Twists and Turns 157.

Notes:

Originally published as: Revirements dans l'antartique du coeur. Galilée, 2011.

ISBN:

9780745663289

0745663281

9780745663272

0745663273

OCLC:

864383058