Manhattan Letters from Prehistory |
|
| Author:
| Cixous, Hélène |
| Translator:
| Brahic, Beverley Bie |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8232-2775-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press
|
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $90.00 |
Book Description:
|
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,...
More DescriptionA 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.