{"product_id":"love-itself-in-the-letter-box-paperback-softback-9780745639895","title":"Love Itself; In the Letter Box (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745639895","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLove Itself\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIn the Letter Box\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHélène Cixous (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745639895, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 July 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e148 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.1 x 14.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.218 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\"A rarefied examination of love, passion and the intermittences of the heart, beautifully translated by Peggy Kamuf.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Hélène Cixous is today the greatest writer in what I shall call, if I may, my language, French. And I weigh my words in saying this. For a very great writer must be a poet-thinker, very much a poet and a very thinking poet.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJacques Derrida\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\"A profoundly intense, individual and brilliant piece of work.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Marx Book Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\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\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLove Itself: In the Letter Box\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove's memories, love recalling itself in letters lost and found over an interval of forty years: Cixous's writer-narrator advances here far into a labyrinth of passions long ago delivered and yet still arriving through the mail, through letters and literature, in other words, the poetry of the post. As for the lovers' returning scenes, they have their addresses in Paris (rue Olivier de Serres, Avenue de Choisy, street names that endlessly feed love's unconscious language) and in New York, but also in a lost oasis of the Egyptian desert during the Napoleonic wars, in Athens and along the shores of a great lake centuries ago in the country of myth. The lovers are poets or soldiers, philosophers or students madly in love with poetry and poets. They are as well mermaids or panthers. Panthers? Yes, for it is the passion of the animal that drives all these lovers to bare themselves, and sometimes their claws, before the beloved. Misunderstandings are often, even inevitably the result. Seconded and witnessed by her passionate, truth-telling cats, Cixous's narrator-writer returns unerringly to moments of errancy inflicted on address and language, those errors and faults when love, perhaps, is listening only to itself, without subject or object, lover or beloved, just love itself, l'amour même, l'amour m'aime, love loving me, in the letter box of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Olivier de Serres—A Single Passion, Two Witnesses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII The Cauliflower of the Lautaret\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII The First Lucidity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV One Time, Avenue de Choisy, Echo, My Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV First Letters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI Faithfully Forever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII When I Become a Frenetic Keeper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX On February 12th I Committed an Error\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\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":52462988394776,"sku":"9780745639895","price":14.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745639895.jpg?v=1785544414","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/love-itself-in-the-letter-box-paperback-softback-9780745639895","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}