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The Laugh Of The Medusa (2000)

by Hélène Cixous(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: "And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it... Besides, you've written a little, but in secret. And it wasn't good, because it was in secret, and because you punished yourself for writing, because you didn't go all the way; or because you wrote, irresistibly, as when we would masturbate in secret, not to go further, but to attenuate the tension a bit, just enough to take the edge off. And then as soon as we come, we go and make ourselves feel guiltyــso as to be forgiven; or to forget, to bury it until the next time."
review 2: Fucking finally. Almost two months to finish a goddamn 20-page essay. I am ashamed.Anyway, it was ok, I guess. Cixous had a lot of interesting to things to say about women and writi... moreng, but the language was aggravating in a way that is hard to explain, and it made it difficult to focus on her points, hence why it took such a long-arse time to finish. She just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no-one had a chance to interrupt; it was really quite hypnotic, etc. Maybe it's a result of being a translated text? I don't know, but I want to give it another chance (albeit at some vague point in the future) before rating it. That only seems fair. less

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