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The Book of Promethea Free FREE THE BOOK OF PROMETHEA PDF Helene Cixous,Betsy Wing | 211 pages | 01 Feb 1991 | University of Nebraska Press | 9780803263437 | English | Lincoln, United States PROMETHEA BOOK 1 | DC Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if The Book of Promethea :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Betsy The Book of Promethea Translator. The result is a stunning example of Pecriture feminine that won praise when first published in France in Its translation into English by Betsy Wing will extend the influence of a writer already famous for her novels and contributions to feminist theory. In her introduction Betsy Wing notes the contemporary emphasis on "fictions of presence. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this The Book of Promethea, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Book of Prometheaplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Book of Promethea. The Book of Promethea with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Book of Promethea. Mar 15, Jonfaith rated it really liked it. No, we do not speak at all the same languages. The Book of Promethea she lets bubble up in a shower of sparks, I would like to collect and bind. She burns and I want to write out the fire! This page prose poem again allows fiction, philosophy and memoir to blend in an aching harmony. Often maddening, The Book of Promethea is a departure for Cixous. Usually her sensuality maintains a literary edge, not here, this is tactile and lustful. This is a dreamish account of affair between two women with images from the caves at Las No, we do not speak at all the same languages. This is a dreamish account of affair between two women with images from the caves at Lascaux to a refugee camp in Lebanon. It is often was The Book of Promethea, at times frustrating. We should heed the advice offered: Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep. Jun 29, Jimmy rated it liked it Shelves: femalepoetic-essayyearsfrance. Seeing all these 5-stars for a Cixous book makes me so happy But I have to be honest here. This was not up to par with the rest of her books that I've read. Like her other novels, this is a blend of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, myth, and literature. But here Cixous tackles the topic of love, the problem of loving and being loved, and it's probably the most purely personal book I've read by her. Thus a lot less of the literature than usual. She transcribes Seeing all these 5-stars for a Cixous book makes me so happy She transcribes the experience of her relationship with Promethea into her notebooks, and that's sort of how it feels to read it And along with that journal-esque style come the high points: soaring prose as good as anything I've read by her. Often passages that reach their height in a breathless obsessive energy of rhythmic release. As far as war is concerned I am truly a woman: I do not want to win, if I were victorious I would be the one defeated, I only want to make my desire to encircle you triumph, my desire to fly over you, to flood you, to observe you from way up high and then through a microscope, I want to know you by means of every science and every art, but I want you to keep yourself intact, you my still-brutal and imposing civilization, I want you purely Infidel if my origins are in the Faith. If I am a Jew, be an Arab and let me love you, let us love each other with our two different innocences Unfortunately, the passages that don't reach such heights often fall to cliche. The impossible of this book is to set The Book of Promethea Promethea as she is, but Cixous knows as well as us that this act of writing changes what's written. And that the thing she wants most to capture is the The Book of Promethea quality in her lover that does not translate to literature. It fascinates because it is impossible. She even admits this in the early pages of the book, which I enjoyed more as it was more about the writing process and the ideas behind the book. But if the goal was to capture the impossibility of the task, The Book of Promethea was able to at least illustrate it in the rest of her experiment- book. When it doesn't work, it falls back down to earth in cliche after cliche: Under my very nose it is all so beautiful. It makes me want to sing. With words? Sometimes I think a moment is so beautiful. I want to toss it handfuls of delicious words so gluttony will keep it there. Does it help that this was in the context of a turtle POV? Not completely. Context matters to a degree and can rescue cliches from their tired moorings, as the translator tries to convince us in the introduction. But only to a degree. And maybe it's the translation's fault, because I found the cliches insurmountable no matter how many contextual leaps were made. Mostly, it's because the book is completely in the deep end of emotions. There is no specific reality for the reader to grab onto. The emotion cannot attach The Book of Promethea to anything concrete, so I was left aswim in a sea of generalities and vagueness. I think Cixous can and has done The Book of Promethea better in her other books, although glimpses of her genius show through in this book as well. View 2 comments. Shelves: france80stheoryread-in This is the sort of writing that exists in the breathless instant of creation. The thrumming energy of words themselves as they struggle construct the shifting phantom architectures of meaning. And so it is, Cixous herself admits to disallowing herself the luxury of revisiting and editing the material, privileging immediacy, that thrumming energy, over refinement, staid literary construction. Though she has doubts, fears the rawness, the exposure, even as she cultivates it. Though there may be n This is the sort of writing that exists in the breathless instant of creation. Though there may be no other way. These are ephemeral words trapped in place in the act of holding a seance with ones own interior spaces. Which would seem to suit Cixous subjects, those of passion, of love. In particular, the violence of emotion as something essential to the experience of true full feeling. And so she renders her sensations in the instant of felt experience, shaping raw emotion into a shifting exploratory theoretics that aim continually build and rewrite themselves as she grapples with them. Given the force of thought here, and with the sheer raw beauty of Cixious' language, it's hard to admit reservation, but I cannot do otherwise: I just think this sort of immediate text may function best in shorter bursts. Here, in page after page, she pours out words The Book of Promethea configurations The Book of Promethea attempt to map similar ideas on the mutual violence of passion again and again. The words are a discovery process, watching them in a rare observation of the point of self-understanding, but the only person for which they can have the The Book of Promethea meaning of experience is Cixous herself. As an outside observer my mind wanders, I compare my own experiences, I drift along parallel tracks into other understandings that only exist somewhere in my own shadowy spaces. Which is not without value, of course. Shelves: philosophyon-writingfrenchfavoritesintensenovelgreat-book-covers. What a restless book! I read this over the course of 7 whole days, which is so long, and so this is what the experience was like: 1. Because it is a book of love. It is a burning bush. Best to plunge in. Once in the fire one is bathed in sweetness. The Book of Promethea | work by Cixous | Britannica Alan Moore and J. Sophie Bangs has just come to grips with her alter ego, the fabled warrior named Promethea, when she decides to join Barbara Shelley on her journey through the Tree of Life. But will leaving Stacia and Grace working together to protect New York prove to be a mistake? The tour-de-force explanation of magic and mysticism is collected within. From one of the most acclaimed writers in all of comic book history, Alan Moore, and the one-of-a-kind, award-winning artist J. Williams III comes Promethea. This second of three Anniversary Deluxe Edition hardcovers collects Promethea of the mystical series plus an extensive art gallery. Alan Moore is perhaps the most acclaimed writer in the graphic story medium, having garnered countless awards for works such as Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing and Miracleman. When you buy a book, we donate a book. Sign in. Dec 31, ISBN Add to Cart. Also available from:. Hardcover —. Also by Alan Moore. About Alan Moore Alan Moore is perhaps the most acclaimed The Book of Promethea in the graphic story medium, having garnered countless awards for works such as Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing and Miracleman.
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