Encounters by H Cixous PAPERBACK 9780745653877

EncountersConversations on Life and Writing\nAuthor(s): Hlne Cixous\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745653877, 978-0745653877\nSynopsis\n\""Isn't it particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work?\"" Frdric-Yves Jeannet asks Hlne Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. \""[I]t's only in writing, on paper, that I reach the most unknown, the strangest, the most advanced part of me for me. I feel closer to my own mystery in the aura of writing it,\"" Cixous responds. These conversations, which took place over three years and cover the creative process behind Cixouss fictional writing, illuminate the genesis and particular genius of one of Frances most original writers. Cixous muses on her \""coming to writing,\"" from her first publications to her recent acclaim for a series of fictional texts that spring, as, she insists all true writing does, from her life: the loss of her father when she was a child, and .