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• Winner of The French-American Foundation Translation Prize 2019

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"Born in Algeria in 1937, the French Jewish philosopher and writer Hélène Cixous, whose innovative thinking feeds into her literary output, has a prodigious oeuvre, now enlarged by this memoir. It focuses on her quest for the lost past of her mother's maternal German side of the family and in so doing blurs the boundaries between fiction and memoir. Her stories resemble a drama replete with characters, living and dead, each speaking in their own voice, real and imagined.-- ""The Jewish Chronicle"" Cixous's memoir illuminates why it has taken a lifetime of writing to tell her story and why it is imperative that we read it.-- ""Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature"" A deeply felt and deeply affecting book, permeated by a sense of love and loss, and of the desire to enter and understand--insofar as possible--a tragic and complex past. Peggy Kamuf's translation wonderfully captures the tonal spectrum of Cixous's writing.---Eva Hoffman, from the Foreword A deeply felt probe into the psyche of a brilliant writer parsing her DNA.---Lanie Tankard, The Woven Tale Press An inventive literary account of Cixous's remarkable journey to her mother's birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust.---Literary Hub, The Best of the University Presses: 100 Books to Escape the News Language in Cixous's hands is molten, constantly opening onto fresh possibilities. Her Osnabruck Station to Jerusalem is an act of imagination, investigation, sojourn, and witness driven by terrible necessity and marbled with fierce, incomparable beauty.---Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts"

Language in Cixous's hands is molten, constantly opening onto fresh possibilities. Her Osnabruck Station to Jerusalem is an act of imagination, investigation, sojourn, and witness driven by terrible necessity and marbled with fierce, incomparable beauty. -- Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

Born in Algeria in 1937, the French Jewish philosopher and writer Helene Cixous, whose innovative thinking feeds into her literary output, has a prodigious oeuvre, now enlarged by this memoir. It focuses on her quest for the lost past of her mother's maternal German side of the family and in so doing blurs the boundaries between fiction and memoir. Her stories resemble a drama replete with characters, living and dead, each speaking in their own voice, real and imagined.-- The Jewish Chronicle Cixous's memoir illuminates why it has taken a lifetime of writing to tell her story and why it is imperative that we read it.-- Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature A deeply felt and deeply affecting book, permeated by a sense of love and loss, and of the desire to enter and understand--insofar as possible--a tragic and complex past. Peggy Kamuf's translation wonderfully captures the tonal spectrum of Cixous's writing.---Eva Hoffman, from the Foreword A deeply felt probe into the psyche of a brilliant writer parsing her DNA.---Lanie Tankard, The Woven Tale Press An inventive literary account of Cixous's remarkable journey to her mother's birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust.---Literary Hub, The Best of the University Presses: 100 Books to Escape the News Language in Cixous's hands is molten, constantly opening onto fresh possibilities. Her Osnabruck Station to Jerusalem is an act of imagination, investigation, sojourn, and witness driven by terrible necessity and marbled with fierce, incomparable beauty.---Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

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Hélène Cixous (Author) Hélène Cixous is the founder of the first Women’s Studies program in France, at the University of Paris VIII. Since 1967, she has published more than fifty “fictions,” as well as numerous works of criticism on literature and many essays on the visual arts. She has long been a collaborator with Ariane Mnouchkine at the Théâtre du Soleil and a number of her plays have been published. Her many books include ""Coming to Writing"" and Other Essays and The Portable Cixous. Eva Hoffman (Foreword By) Eva Hoffman is author of the best-selling memoir Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language. Her other books include Shtetl, After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust, and two novels, The Secret and Illuminations. Peggy Kamuf (Translator) Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include Book of Addresses, which won the René Wellek Prize, and, most recently, Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty.

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