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In The Third Body, The Poet, Novelist, Feminist Critic, And Theorist Helene Cixous Interweaves A Loose Narrative Line With Anecdotal Presentations, Autobiography, Lyricism, Myth, Dream, Fantasy, Philosophical Insights, And Intertextual Citations Of And Conversations With Other Authors And Thinkers. Cixous Evokes The Relationship Of The Female Narrator And Her Lover, A Relationship Of Alternating Presences And Absences, Separations And Rejoinings - A Passionate And Ever-buoyant Relationship In Which The Partners Partake Of Life And Death, Memory And Oblivion, Desire And Discovery, The Transgressive And The Visionary, And The Chimerical And The Real. This Relationship Assumes Protean Forms Within A Complex Web Of Writing, Creating A Third Body Out Of The Entwined Bodies Of The Narrator And Her Lover. This Is A Sensuous Body Endowed With Flesh-and-blood Reality, And It Is Also The Body Of The Text: For Cixous, Writing Is Grounded In The Physical Body, And The Physical Body Becomes Writing. The Three Dominant Texts That Cixous Cites Or Alludes To Wilhelm Jensen's Novel Gradiva; Freud's Interpretation Of That Work In The Essay Delusion And Dream; And Kleist's Earthquake In Chile--are In

Who reads The Third Body?

Author

Cixous, Hélène

Publisher

Evanston, Ill. : Hydra Books/Northwestern University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781878448903

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

4.14 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14