LEADER 03918nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910457025503321 005 20211005222144.0 010 $a0-8232-5989-7 010 $a1-282-69853-2 010 $a9786612698538 010 $a0-8232-3790-7 010 $a0-8232-1762-0 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008064 035 $a(EBL)3239499 035 $a(OCoLC)730040872 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000439331 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11321763 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439331 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10460578 035 $a(PQKB)10065271 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239499 035 $a(OCoLC)1227050621 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58753 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239499 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365120 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476644 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476644 035 $a(OCoLC)607910750 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008064 100 $a20071015d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aManhattan$b[electronic resource] $eletters from prehistory /$fHe?le?ne Cixous ; translated by Beverley Bie Brahic 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (203 p.) 300 $a"Originally published in French as Manhattan: lettres de la prehistorie c2002 Editions Galilee"--T.p. verso. 311 $a0-8232-2776-6 311 $a0-8232-2775-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCertes 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. 330 $aManhattan 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 NaziGermany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with, as Jacques Derrida writes, ?a counterfeit genius.?. 606 $aAuthors, French$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aAuthors, French$y21st century$vBiography 607 $aManhattan (New York, N.Y.)$xDescription and travel 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAuthors, French 615 0$aAuthors, French 676 $a848/.91409 700 $aCixous$b He?le?ne$f1937-$0456257 701 $aBrahic$b Beverley Bie$01035155 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457025503321 996 $aManhattan$92454692 997 $aUNINA