{"product_id":"manhattan-letters-from-prehistory-paperback-softback-9781531502898","title":"Manhattan; Letters from Prehistory (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531502898","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eManhattan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLetters from Prehistory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHélène Cixous (Author), Beverley Bie Brahic (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531502898\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 August 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.1 cm, 0.258 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eManhattan\u003c\/i\u003e is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University's Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no-nonsense mother await her return.\u003cbr\u003e  A young European intellectual's first contact with America and the city of New York are the background of this story. The experience of Manhattan haunts this labyrinth of a book as, over a period of thirty-five years, its narrator visits and revisits Central Park and a half-buried squirrel, the Statue of Liberty and a never again to be found hotel in the vicinity of Morningside Heights: a journey into memory in which everything is never the same.\u003cbr\u003e  Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, \u003ci\u003eManhattan \u003c\/i\u003edeploys with gusto all the techniques for which Cixous's fiction and essays are known: rapid juxtapositions of time and place, narrative and description, analysis and philosophical reflection. It investigates subjects Cixous has spent her life probing: reading, writing, and the \"omnipotence-other\" seductions of literature; a family's flight from Nazi Germany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with a counterfeit genius.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrologue \u003c\/i\u003e  vii\u003cbr\u003e Certes a Sacrifice   1\u003cbr\u003e The Eye-Patch   23\u003cbr\u003e A yellow Folder   35\u003cbr\u003e I Will Not Write This Book   41\u003cbr\u003e The Evidence   53\u003cbr\u003e I Loved Above All Literature   59\u003cbr\u003e The Necropolis   71\u003cbr\u003e More and More Notebooks   83\u003cbr\u003e I Am Naked   95\u003cbr\u003e The Charm of the Malady   103\u003cbr\u003e Folly usa   115\u003cbr\u003e Donne Is Done   125\u003cbr\u003e Room 91   133\u003cbr\u003e The Vroom Vroom Period   147\u003cbr\u003e Elpenor's Dream   161\u003cbr\u003e After the End   177\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTranslator's Notes\u003c\/i\u003e   185\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"New York ReLit","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52693396783384,"sku":"9781531502898","price":12.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/manhattan-letters-from-prehistory-paperback-softback-9781531502898","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}