{"product_id":"9780745663289","title":"Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTwists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHélène Cixous\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTwists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling new volume in Hélène Cixous's search for lost time. Readers of earlier volumes - \u003ci\u003eHemlock\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHyperdream\u003c\/i\u003e, among others - will reconnect with familiar characters: Eve, the elderly mother now in her hundredth year, Hélène, the daughter, who never expected to become a mother at 70, and the brother, childhood companion and rival. She has almost no time to write.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"You hate me! You hate me!\" someone shouts. \"You want me dead!\" Is that a revolver on the table? Bang! Shot or door slammed? The brother storms out.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Family is destroying itself.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTwists and Turns\u003c\/i\u003e, like all Cixous's books, is a many-faceted text, whose narrative spins its webs in corners familiar to Cixous readers: corners with books and writers - Montaigne, Proust, Kafka, Derrida; a theater and plays; friendship, and love. It is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, \"with love's force one hates.\" And yet, \"everything twists and turns\": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  Hélène Cixous is one of the world’s leading writers. She is the founder and former director of the Centre de Recherches en Études Féminines at Paris VIII University and is a frequent visitor to universities in the United States and Canada.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e25 November 2013\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780745663289\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e224\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e8.96\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44384844284044,"sku":"9780745663289","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780745663289.jpg?v=1780175033","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780745663289","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}