So CloseISBN: 978-0-7456-4436-3
Paperback
176 pages
February 2010, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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"The pages of So Close are soaked with tears ... Cixous's
prose - impressively rendered into English by one of Derrida's
principal translators, Peggy Kamuf - is hallucinatory, richly
allusive and poetic ... sly humour tugs you back into her world,
pulls you headlong towards an epiphany, into a great swell of
emotion, a rush of memories, sensations, impressions, like the
crescendo of a symphony, whose effect is all the more powerful
because it cannot be explained or described. The devastating climax
of the book is moving beyond words."
Jewish Chronicle
Jewish Chronicle
"This translation of a key text marks an important step forward
in making Cixous accessible to a wider public. Peggy Kamuf has
achieved the impossible, succeeding both in rendering the subtlety
of Cixous's thinking and in conveying a sense of the beauty of her
prose."
Mairéad Hanrahan, University College London
"So Close is sensationally truthful. It approaches Algeria
through the unexpected realms of writing, where literature and
reality almost touch. This fiction has a child's ability to
believe; a child who has read Proust and the Greeks, lived through
history, and can still sense the danger sleeping in a
macaroon."
Sarah Wood, University of Kent