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"Love and death battle subtly and ceaselessly in this tenderly dramatic, funny, domestic book. Told by a daughter doing all she can not to anticipate the death of her much-loved mother, fiction joins forces with flowers and animals, philosophy and the act of writing itself to affirm life in the teeth of loss." Sarah Wood, University of Kent
"Beverley Bie Brahic's beautifully crafted translation succeeds in capturing the distinctive music and haunting tonality of the original along with its rich web of meaning - this is a wonderful addition to the growing body of works by Cixous available in English." Mairead Hanrahan, University College London
A compelling work of autobiographical fiction, Helene Cixous's Hemlock weaves tragedy and comedy, narrative and meditation 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.
"I see in my mind two lovely faces of old women in bloom," the author has written, with a backwards nod to Proust's "jeunes filles". "Here the long criss-crossing paths of my mother and my aunt will come to an end at last. When one of the two old flowers is left, what will become 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 am afraid mama will die," writes the protagonist. "I don't sleep...I see the worm. It's a phial slim as a sentence or on the contrary filled to the soul with the damned juice of jusquiame, henbane. And into the porches of my ears I see something pour the leprous liqueur... ."
In this new work Helene 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.
"Beverley Bie Brahic's beautifully crafted translation succeeds in capturing the distinctive music and haunting tonality of the original along with its rich web of meaning - this is a wonderful addition to the growing body of works by Cixous available in English." Mairead Hanrahan, University College London
A compelling work of autobiographical fiction, Helene Cixous's Hemlock weaves tragedy and comedy, narrative and meditation 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.
"I see in my mind two lovely faces of old women in bloom," the author has written, with a backwards nod to Proust's "jeunes filles". "Here the long criss-crossing paths of my mother and my aunt will come to an end at last. When one of the two old flowers is left, what will become 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 am afraid mama will die," writes the protagonist. "I don't sleep...I see the worm. It's a phial slim as a sentence or on the contrary filled to the soul with the damned juice of jusquiame, henbane. And into the porches of my ears I see something pour the leprous liqueur... ."
In this new work Helene 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.
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Helene Cixous is the founder and former director of the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University.
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