Hèléne Cixous - author, playwright and French feminist theorist - is a key figure in twentieth-century literary theory. Stigmatabrings together her most recent essays for the first time. Acclaimed for her intricate and challenging writing style, Cixous presents a collection oftexts that get away- escaping the reader, the writers, the book. Cixous's writing pursues authors such as Stendhal, Joyce, Derrida, and Rembrandt, da Vinci, Picasso - works that share an elusive movement in spite of striking differences. Along the way these essays explore a broad range of poetico-philosophical questions that have become characteristic of Cixous' work:* love's labours lost and found* feminine hours* autobiographies of writing* the prehistory of the work of artStigmatagoes beyond theory, becoming an extraordinary writer's testimony to our lives and times. | Stigmata by H Cixous, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters