Research Catalog

Title

Hyperdream / by Hélène Cixous ; translated by Beverley Bie Brahic.

Author

Cixous, Hélène, 1937-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Brahic, Beverley Bie

Description

x, 168 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Hyperdream is a major new novel by celebrated French author Hélène Cixous. It is a literary tour de force, returning anew to challenge necessity itself, the most implacable of human certainties: you die in the end -- and thatʹs the end. For you, for me. But what if? What if death did not inevitably spell the end of life? Hyperdream invests this fragile, tentative suspension of disbelief with the sheer force of its poetic audacity, inventing a sort of magic telephone: a wireless lifeline against all the odds to the dearly departed. It is a book about time, age, love and the greatest loss. A book which turns on death: on the question or the moment of death, depending on it, expecting it, living off it, taking place at once before and after, but at the same time turning against it, contesting it, outwriting it hopefully, desperately, performatively, as an interruptible interruption. -- Back cover.

Subjects

• Cixous, Hélène, 1937-
• 1900-1999
• Biographies
• Death in literature
• Women authors, French > 20th century > Biography
• Death > Fiction
• Dreams > Fiction

Genre/Form

Biographies

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Before the End --- II. Benjaminʹs Bedspring --- III. A Leave .

ISBN

• 0745642993 (hbk.)
• 0745643000 (pbk.)
• 9780745642994 (hbk.)
• 9780745643007 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 245562617
• SCSB-11309638

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library