{"product_id":"manhattan-letters-from-prehistory-9781531502898","title":"Manhattan: Letters from Prehistory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eManhattan\u003c\/i\u003e is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University's Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no-nonsense mother await her return. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A young European intellectual's first contact with America and the city of New York are the background of this story. The experience of Manhattan haunts this labyrinth of a book as, over a period of thirty-five years, its narrator visits and revisits Central Park and a half-buried squirrel, the Statue of Liberty and a never again to be found hotel in the vicinity of Morningside Heights: a journey into memory in which everything is never the same. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, \u003ci\u003eManhattan \u003c\/i\u003edeploys with gusto all the techniques for which Cixous's fiction and essays are known: rapid juxtapositions of time and place, narrative and description, analysis and philosophical reflection. It investigates subjects Cixous has spent her life probing: reading, writing, and the \"omnipotence-other\" seductions of literature; a family's flight from Nazi Germany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with a counterfeit genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Relit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531502898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d","brand":"H\u0026#233;l\u0026#232;ne Cixous","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42896154427573,"sku":"9781531502898","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4e509a13-1274-40ac-a5c6-b82dfa58d65f.jpg?v=1686100635","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/manhattan-letters-from-prehistory-9781531502898","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}