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Helene Cixous (Author) Helene Cixous is the founder of the first Women's Studies program in France, at the University of Paris VIII. Since 1967, she has published more than fifty "fictions," as well as numerous works of criticism on literature and many essays on the visual arts. She has long been a collaborator with Ariane Mnouchkine at the Theatre du Soleil, and a number of her plays have been published. Her many books include Osnabrueck Station to Jerusalem, "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays, and The Portable Cixous. Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator) Beverley Bie Brahic lives in Paris. She is the translator of Helene Cixous's Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, Dream I Tell You, Reveries of the Wild Woman, and The Day I Wasn't There, and the author of a volume of poems, Against Gravity.

Prologue vii Certes a Sacrifice 1 The Eye-Patch 23 A yellow Folder 35 I Will Not Write This Book 41 The Evidence 53 I Loved Above All Literature 59 The Necropolis 71 More and More Notebooks 83 I Am Naked 95 The Charm of the Malady 103 Folly usa 115 Donne Is Done 125 Room 91 133 The Vroom Vroom Period 147 Elpenor's Dream 161 After the End 177 Translator's Notes 185

"An affecting novel about how the heart--an organ that doesn't just bleed, but reads and writes--is given and taken, and the scars it bears."-- "M/C Reviews" "A luminous book. A poignant literary work."-- "Alessia Ricciardi, Northwestern University" "This brilliant book is above all an investigation of the power of literature, of the ways in which fiction keeps secret what it seems to expose, lies and tells the truth at the same time. Helene Cixous infuses this haunting story of deception with her unique poetic style, incisive wit, and philosophical acumen."-- "Brigitte Weltman-Aron, University of Florida" "A remarkable sequence of meditations on memory and identity, presence and absence, the said and the unsaid, from one of the most significant and original writers in Europe today."---Ian Blyth, University of St. Andrews