WRITER

Hélène Cixous

1937 - Today

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Hélène Cixous (; French: [siksu]; born 5 June 1937) is a French writer, playwright and literary critic. During her academic career, she was primarily associated with the Centre universitaire de Vincennes (today's University of Paris VIII), which she co-founded in 1969 and where she created the first centre of women's studies at a European university. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hélène Cixous has received more than 667,708 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Hélène Cixous is the 1,106th most popular writer (up from 1,187th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Algeria (up from 38th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Algerian Writer.

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  • 60.94

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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Insister
2006
Ève s'évade
2009
Le Prénom de Dieu
1967
Manhattan
Biography & Autobiography
Manhattan 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. 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. Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, Manhattan deploys 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, as Jacques Derrida writes, "a counterfeit genius."
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Readings
Literary Criticism
Four striking and novel textual studies of major literary figures and emergent authors. Selected from Cixous's seminars taught between 1980 and 1986 at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis) and at the College International de Philosphie, the texts chronicle the French intellectual scene with its shifting tastes over the decade following May 1968. Edited, translated, and introduced by Verena Andermatt Conley. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1991
Neutre
1972
Manhattan
French Authors, Biography, Description and travel
2002
Hélène Cixous, Rootprints
2003
Exil de James Joyce
Irish Novelists, Biography, 1882-1941
1972
Stigmata
2002
Rêve je te dis
Literature, Theory, Feminist theory
2003
Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous
2020

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hélène Cixous ranks 1,106 out of 7,302. Before her are John William Polidori, Leonid Andreyev, Andrei Bely, Bhāsa, Bernard Cornwell, and Robert Merle. After her are Claudius Aelianus, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Velimir Khlebnikov, Camilla Collett, Ethel Voynich, and Shi Nai'an.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Hélène Cixous ranks 65. Before her are Lionel Jospin, George Carlin, Song Hye-rim, Roald Hoffmann, Robert Lucas Jr., and Mario Capecchi. After her are Sigmund Jähn, Tony Burton, George Takei, Tamara Press, Cüneyt Arkın, and Valentyn Sylvestrov.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Hélène Cixous ranks 37 out of 213. Before her are Assia Djebar (1936), Edwige Fenech (1948), Chadli Bendjedid (1929), Jacques Attali (1943), Enrico Macias (1938), and Robert Merle (1908). After her are Jean-Claude Brialy (1933), Khaled (1960), Micipsa (-200), Priscian (500), Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (1856), and Mohamed Boudiaf (1919).

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Among WRITERS In Algeria

Among writers born in Algeria, Hélène Cixous ranks 6. Before her are Albert Camus (1913), Apuleius (125), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Assia Djebar (1936), and Robert Merle (1908). After her are Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Kateb Yacine (1929), Mohammed Dib (1920), Isaac Alfasi (1013), Al-Busiri (1213), and Mouloud Feraoun (1913).

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