{"product_id":"eve-escapes-paperback-softback-9780745650975","title":"Eve Escapes (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745650975","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEve Escapes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHélène Cixous (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745650975, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 June 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.8 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.249 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Suggests the mysteriousness of parents and the inacccessible internal lives barely imaginable to their children.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26\u0026amp;storycode=421102\u0026amp;c=1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eEve Escapes\u003c\/i\u003e is all at once a poetic meditation on aging, a performative novel on the powers of writing, and a passionate description of a literary family. This book, published in a beautiful translation, is a high point in Cixous's narrative oeuvre, whose singularity and magic are simply inextinguishable.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLaurent Dubreuil, Cornell University\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Cixous's ongoing saga of farewell to her mother offers an unprecedented exploration of what it means to live old age. Moving between Freud and Montaigne, between broccoli and Balzac, the writer has created a poignant yet joyful celebration of her nonagenerian mother's determination to live life to the full.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMairéad Hanrahan, University College London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"I get up every day with one day more,\" says Eve, the writer's  97-year-old mother. She is escaping into the New Life and the writer  must race to catch up. As things slip away and fall into oblivion, as  her mother's world and thus her own relentlessly shrinks, the writer is  stunned to see for the first time the vestiges of a prison scene in her  beloved Tower of Montaigne, which she has been visiting for fifty years.  It represents the story of Cimon and Pero, a daughter's act of charity  that saved her father from certain death. How extraordinary that it  should only now appear to this other daughter who dreams of nothing less  for her parent and thus for herself. A different prison scene draws the  writer to reflect on Freud's remark \"that the dream of a prisoner can  have nothing other than escape as content,\" a comment he illustrates  with Moritz von Schwind's painting \u003ci\u003eThe Prisoner's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e. But it  is Freud's own dreams of escape from the prison of declining powers in  his old age that the writer channels through her telepathic connection  to the one she calls her \"nuncle.\" She knows that the worst, worse even  than the effects of the disease eating through his body, would have been  the obliteration of his dreams upon waking, a sensation of theft that  is \"like a rug one pulls from beneath the head's feet, bam, bam! like a  tapestry of life folded up in a flash.\" And yet life's tapestry has  never seemed more richly colored, more elaborately woven, more  abundantly endowed with the gifts of Eve, the mother, the midwife, the  irrepressible story-teller, the great escape artist, and the indomitable  heroine of this book.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDay of Sufferance\u003cbr\u003eThe Prisoner's Dream\u003cbr\u003eFreud Dreams No More\u003cbr\u003eThe Shrinking\u003cbr\u003eTales and Days of Reading\u003cbr\u003eThe Cane and the Parasol\u003cbr\u003eOn Board the Magnolia\u003cbr\u003eI Become a Cemetery Citizen\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Notes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52462973419800,"sku":"9780745650975","price":14.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745650975.jpg?v=1785543932","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/eve-escapes-paperback-softback-9780745650975","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}