Angst / Hélène Cixous ; translated by Sophie Lewis ; foreword by Jamieson Webster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cixous, Hélène, 1937- author.

Contributor:

Lewis, Sophie, translator.

Standardized Title:

Angst. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Novels.

Novels

Translations

Physical Description:

xvi, 265 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : Silver Press, 2026.

Summary:

"A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive phone calls with the beloved figures, without success. She waits for their letters and imagines their contents. In a dream-like, torrid sequence, suffering, fear, fatigue and imperfection are apostrophised. Forgetting is examined and toyed with from every angle. Mythical hybrid creatures are invoked: a snake-headed lion, wolf-snakes, a wolf-peacock. How did this come to be? In a cunningly, wittily wrought rush, the unique, unpredictable voice of the narrator speaks from multiple perspectives to express powerful anguish and, ultimately, catharsis."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

ISBN:

9781739371777

1739371771

OCLC:

1582438289

Publisher Number:

CIPO000360803