Veils

Author: Helene Cixous
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0804737959

Veils (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. Get Veils literature books for free.
"Savoir," by HAlAne Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia, an experience that ends with the unexpected turn of grieving for what is lost. Her literary inventiveness mines the coincidence in French between the two verbs savoir (to know) and voir (to see). Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" complexly muses on a host of autobiographical, philosophical, and religious motifs-including his varied responses to "Savoir." The two texts are accompanied by six beautiful and evocative drawings that play Check Veils our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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