This collection presents six essays by one of France’s most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, here Hélène Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexes—viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning—manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts. These superb translations do full justice to Cixous’s prose, to its songlike flow and allusive brilliance.

Edited and translated by: Deborah Jenson
Introduction by: Susan Rubin Suleiman
Translated by: Sarah Cornell, Ann Liddle, Susan Sellers