Hélène Cixous circles the idea of a last book in Chat Larme
The French writer and theorist returns with a text built, according to Diacritik, like the leap of a cat — turning around the motif of the final book.
Diacritik has published a reading of Hélène Cixous's new text, Chat Larme, built, the site writes, like the leap of a cat and described as 'l'archiécriture de la Maison Chat.' According to Diacritik, the book turns and returns around the motif of the last book, and around a kind of slippage, without the outlet detailing plot, publisher or page count.
Cixous, a central figure of French literary theory since the 1970s and a longtime collaborator of the Théâtre du Soleil, has spent decades writing texts that resist the usual categories of novel, essay or memoir. Chat Larme appears to continue that practice, playing on sound and homophony in its very title — chat larme recalling 'larme' (tear) folded into 'chat' (cat).
Beyond Diacritik's brief description, no further details on the book's release or contents are available at this time.
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