Cixous, Hélène
Well-Kept Ruins
- ISBN 13:
- 9781803090597
- author:
- Cixous, Hélène
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Seagull Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 156
- Dimensions:
- 22.4 x 15.5 x 2.8 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Well-Kept Ruins by Hélène Cixous
In 2019, Hélène Cixous returned to her hometown in Osnabrück, Germany, to reflect on the remains of the synagogue that once stood on Old Synagogue Street. The site now holds a poignant reminder of Kristallnacht, the horror-filled night of November 9, 1938, when the synagogue was desecrated and eventually demolished by Hitler's forces.
This genre-defying book is part memoir, part philosophical meditation, as Cixous explores the ruins at the heart of humanity. With haunting photographs and poetic prose, she ponders the life lost, the life kept, and the complexities of memory and oblivion.
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