Manhattan : Letters from Prehistory / Helene Cixous ; translated by Beverley Bie Brahic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cixous, Hélène, 1937- author.

Contributor:

Brahic, Beverley Bie, translator.

Standardized Title:

Manhattan. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Cixous, Hélène, 1937-.

Cixous, Hélène.

Authors, French--Fiction.

Authors, French.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

Translated from French.

Summary:

"Manhattan 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. 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. Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, Manhattan deploys 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Certes a sacrifice

The eye-patch

A yellow folder

I will not write this book

The evidence

I loved above all literature

The Necropolis

More and more notebooks

I am naked

The charm of the malady

Folly USA

Done is done

Room 91

The vroom vroom period

Elpenor's dream

After the end.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781531502911

1531502911

9781531502904

1531502903

OCLC:

1392164453