Hélène Cixous

Biography

Hélène Cixous is a Jewish-French, Algerian-born feminist well-known as one of the founders of poststructuralist feminist theory along with Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva.

She is now a professor of English Literature at University of Paris VIII and chairs the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Féminines which she founded in 1974.

She has published numerous essays, playwrights, novels, poems, and literary criticism.

Her academic works concern subjects of feminism, the human body, history, death, and theatre.

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Country: Algeria
Gender: Female
Education: Faculté des lettres de Paris
Place of birth: Oran
Birth date: 05 June 1937
Nationality: Algerian

Francine and Antoine Bernheim Award for Arts
Literature and Science
Prix du Syndicat de la critique
Prix Médicis
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews
Prix de la langue française
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
Commander of the National Order of Merit

We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie.
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness.
Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.
To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.
People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.
Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.
I see nothing. I do not move.
They grab you by the breasts, they pluck your derriere, they stuff you in a pot, they saute you with sperm, they grab you by the beak, they stick you in a house, they fatten you up on conjugal oil, they shut you up in your cage. And now, lay.
The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny thatthe effects of the past are still with us.
I write woman: woman must write woman. And man, man.

Movies

Ever, reve, Helene Cixous
2018
A feminist legend, a May 68 activist, a famous playwright and poet, Hélène Cixous is the vehicle of this road movie.
Jacques Derrida, le courage de la pensée
2014

Books

Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem
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Well-Kept Ruins
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Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous
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We Defy Augury
Hélène Cixous
We defy augury.
Lettres de fuite
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Ruines bien rangées
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Tomb(e)
Helene Cixous
Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous
Hélène Cixous
Cixous' work as a playwright - working mainly with theatre du soleil and their director ariane mnouchkine - establishes her as a participant in some of the most adventurous european theatre making of the last 40 years.
Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem
Hélène Cixous
An inventive literary account of cixous's remarkable journey to her mother's birthplacewinner, french voices award for excellence in publication and translationfor about eighty years, the jonas fami.
Mother Homer Is Dead...
Hélène Cixous
Mother homer is dead was written in the immediate aftermath of the death of the writer's mother in the 103rd year of her life.
Dream I Tell You
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Mother Homer Is Dead...
Hélène Cixous
Mother homer is dead was written in the immediate aftermath of the death of the writer's mother in the 103rd year of her life.
Abstracts and brief chronicles of the time
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Death shall be dethroned
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Stigmata
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A 'wilful extremist' according to the london times, h�l�ne cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time.
"Le rire de la Méduse" - regards critiques
Hélène Cixous
Homère est morte...
Hélène Cixous
Ce livre a déjà été écrit par ma mère jusqu’à la dernière ligne.
Insurrection de la poussière
Hélène Cixous
Le détrônement de la mort
Hélène Cixous
Hélène cixous ce livret est le shadow book du livre de los.
Twists And Turns In The Hearts Antarctic
Hélène Cixous
Twists and turns in the heart's antarctic is a compelling new volume in hélène cixous's search for lost time.
Double Oblivion of the OurangOutang
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Encounters
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Isn?
Twists and Turns in the Hearts Antarctic
Hélène Cixous
Twists and turns in the heart's antarctic is a compelling new volume in hélène cixous's search for lost time.
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Hélène Cixous
Rire De La Meduse Et Autres Ironies
Hélène Cixous
Abstracts et brèves chroniques du temps
Hélène Cixous
"ce livre est un chapitre du livre-que-je-n’écris-pas.
Tombe
Hélène Cixous
“in 1968-69 i wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides,” wrote hélène cixous, esteemed french feminist, playwright, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist.
Poetry in painting
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Eve Escapes
Hélène Cixous
I get up every day with one day more, says eve, the writer's 97-year-old mother.
Le voyage de la racine Alechinsky
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Luc Tuymans
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Entretien de la blessure
Hélène Cixous
Jean genet : né amputé de mère et de père, déposé au bureau des enfants abandonnés, jugé non contagieux et déporté dans le morvan, au pays mor, c’est-à-dire au pays noir.
Volleys of Humanity
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Volleys of humanity
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Hemlock
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Revirements
Hélène Cixous
Entretien de la blessure
Hélène Cixous
Jean genet : né amputé de mère et de père, déposé au bureau des enfants abandonnés, jugé non contagieux et déporté dans le morvan, au pays mor, c’est-à-dire au pays noir.
Philippines
Hélène Cixous
First published in french by editions galilee, 2009..
The portable Cixous
Hélène Cixous
Helene cixous is more than an influential theorist.
Zeros Neighbour
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Zero's neighbour' is a tribute to the work of samuel beckett.
Philippines
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Zero's Neighbour
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Zero's neighbour is helene cixous's tribute to the minimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness in his writing like nobody else: samuel beckett.
La ville parjure, ou, Le réveil des Érinyes
Hélène Cixous
Double oubli de l'orang-outang
Hélène Cixous
L'histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk, roi du Cambodge
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Philippines
Hélène Cixous
Philippines is hélène cixous's reverie or 'true dreaming' which intertwines freud's uneasy views on telepathy, autobiographical memories conflating algeria and paris, childhood and adult life, shared with her brother 'pete', and literary evocati.
White ink
Hélène Cixous
These interviews with h'l'ne cixous offer invaluable insight into her philosophy and criticism.
Ève s'évade
Hélène Cixous
"le rêve d’un prisonnier est accroché dans la galerie des « rêves d’enfants ».
Ève s'évade
Hélène Cixous
"le rêve d’un prisonnier est accroché dans la galerie des « rêves d’enfants ».
Der Tag, an dem ich nicht da war
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So close
Hélène Cixous
In so close, the internationally renowned writer helene cixous recounts a return to her native algeria after a more than thirty-year absence.
So close
Hélène Cixous
In so close, the internationally renowned writer helene cixous recounts a return to her native algeria after a more than thirty-year absence.
Rüya dedim sana
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The third body
Hélène Cixous
In the third body, the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist hélène cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical insights, and intertextual citations of and conversations with other authors and thinkers.
The third body
Hélène Cixous
In the third body, the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist hélène cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical insights, and intertextual citations of and conversations with other authors and thinkers.
Ciguë
Hélène Cixous
Extrait:maman n'est pas dans mamanil y a quelqu'un d'autre«disparition» me dis-je, je grimpai les marches, à la fuite, «je l'ai vue», je me jetai dans mon bureau à ma table, dont le radeau est amarré à l'orée du néant au coin de la.
Manhattan
Hélène Cixous
The luminous tale of a young french scholar who travels to the united states to consult the manuscripts of beloved authorsmanhattan is the tale of a young french scholar who travels to the united states in 1965 on a fulbrigh.
Love itself in the letter box
Hélène Cixous
Love's memories, love recalling itself in letters lost and found over an interval of forty years: cixous's writer-narrator advances here far into a labyrinth of passions long ago delivered and yet still arriving through the mail, through letters and liter.
Insister of Jacques Derrida
Helene Cixous
Hélène cixous is arguably the most insightful and unbridled reader of jacques derrida today.
Insister of Jacques Derrida
Helene Cixous
Hélène cixous is arguably the most insightful and unbridled reader of jacques derrida today.

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Hélène Cixous

Hélène Cixous is a Jewish-French, Algerian-born feminist well-known as one of the founders of poststructuralist feminist theory along with Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva.