Author Description

Hèléne Cixous -- Author, Playwright And French Feminist Theorist -- Is A Key Figure In Twentieth-century Literary Theory. Stigmata Brings Together Her Most Recent Essays For The First Time. Acclaimed For Her Intricate And Challenging Writing Style, Cixous Presents A Collection Of Texts That Get Away -- Escaping The Reader, The Writers, The Book. Cixous's Writing Pursues Authors Such As Stendhal, Joyce, Derrida, And Rembrandt, Da Vinci, Picasso -- Works That Share An Elusive Movement In Spite Of Striking Differences. Along The Way These Essays Explore A Broad Range Of Poetico-philosophical Questions That Have Become Characteristic Of Cixous' Work: * Love's Labours Lost And Found * Feminine Hours * Autobiographies Of Writing * The Prehistory Of The Work Of Art Stigmata Goes Beyond Theory, Becoming An Extraordinary Writer's Testimony To Our Lives And Times.