Rêvoir
$31.99
- Hardcover
210 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2025
Summary
A genre-defying account of confinement and its literary echoes through history.
As the pandemic sweeps through Paris in March 2020, the writer HC faces a choice: stay in Paris or flee to the countryside? The weight of historical responses bears down on her—those of her ancestors and Jewish writers during moments of persecution.
Still uncertain, she flees to the country at the last moment, with her cats and her daughter, with her diaries and notebooks. What wil…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803093871 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803093870 |
| Author: | Beverley Bie Brahic, Hélène Cixous |
| Publisher: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Imprint: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 210 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 426g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | The French List |
Beverley Bie Brahic
Hélène Cixous is professor emeritus of literature at the Université Paris VIII, where she founded and directed the Centre de recherches en études féminines. She is the author of more than seventy works of fiction, plays, and collections of critical essays; recent titles in English translation include Well-Kept Ruins, We Defy Augury, and Tomb(e).
Beverley Bie Brahic is a Paris-based translator and author of four collections of poetry, including White Sheets. Her translations include works by Charles Baudelaire, Yves Bonnefoy, Hélène Cixous, and Francis Ponge.
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