Manhattan [[electronic resource] ] : letters from prehistory / / Hélène Cixous ; translated by Beverley Bie Brahic

• Autore: Cixous Hélène <1937->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Disciplina: 848/.91409
• Soggetto topico: Authors, French - 20th century; Authors, French - 21st century
• Soggetto geografico: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Description and travel
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BrahicBeverley Bie
• Note generali: "Originally published in French as Manhattan: lettres de la prehistorie c2002 Editions Galilee"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 NaziGermany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with, as Jacques Derrida writes, ?a counterfeit genius.?.
• Titolo autorizzato: Manhattan
• ISBN: 0-8232-5989-7; 1-282-69853-2; 9786612698538; 0-8232-3790-7; 0-8232-1762-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457025503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II