INSIDE
Hélène Cixous's debut novel is a semi-autobiographical work that traces memory, loss, and the shifting outline of the self after her father's death. In its fragmented narration, it repeatedly unsettles the boundaries between inside and outside, life and death, language and the body.
Work Information
An interior narrative in which the self keeps shifting under the weight of a father's death.
Beginning with the memory of a father's death, Hélène Cixous renders grief in a dreamlike, fragmented style. Rather than a novel of plot and incident, it is a work that turns inward movement itself into language, sustaining the sensation of a self whose boundaries are continually breaking apart and being remade from within.
Review Summaries
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Readers praise the dense, fragmentary style and the book's inward depiction of loss and self-formation. At the same time, some feel that its focus on language over plot demands considerable concentration.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Schocken
- Published
- 1986-11-12
- Pages
- 136 pages
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9780805240191
- ISBN-10
- 0805240195
A young girl recounts the passionate love she feels for her father and faces an identity crisis when he dies
Related Literary Awards
- Prix Médicis Edition 12 (1969) ・Winner