Coming to Writing and Other Essays

This collection presents six essays by one of Frances most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, here Hlne Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexesviewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaningmanifest themselves, write themselves, in texts. These superb translations do full justice to Cixouss prose, to its songlike flow and allusive brilliance.