Hemlock

Old Women in Bloom
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7456-4867-5
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

A compelling work of autobiographical fiction, Hélène Cixous's Hemlock weaves tragedy and comedy in its exploration of various human attachments: between an elderly but still truculent mother and her writer-daughter, between the mother and her sister, and between the writer and her vanished but nonetheless intensely present friend, Jacques Derrida, whose death is movingly evoked. "Here," she says in her preface, "the criss-crossing paths of my mother and my aunt will come to an end at last. When one old flower is left, what becomes of the other face?" Socrates is conjured up, along with the poisonous plants of Hamlet, the human comedies of Balzac and Proust, and other literary and philosophical ghosts who find themselves drawn into the fabric of Cixous's text: "I'm not sleeping," writes the protagonist. "A worm is drilling my brain. It's a phrase I heard in the hellish juice of the jusquiame. I pour it into my own ear. ‘I'm afraid Mama will die'."
In this new work Hélène Cixous continues to explore and expand the boundaries of narrative, slipping from thought to thought and from image to image, so as to render every action, fear and thought palpable to the reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cixous, Hélène

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Mama's Not in Mama - There's Someone Else
In Which Country?
Henbane
Put Me a Ghost at the Embarcadero
The Vitrine
Two Slices of Life
Hemlock
Cousin Deafness
The Jerk
Get, Gotcha
To Have To Lose
The Blue Notebook
Eri Goes On Ahead
Translator's Postface
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Cixous, Hélène
Helene Cixous is one of the world's leading writers. She is founder and former director of the Centre de Recherches en Études Féminines at Paris VIII University.