Helene Cixous

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1991
  • Latest Book:
    June 2026
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Books in Order: 17 titles

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  • Angst

    A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother—god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive phone calls with the beloved figures, without s...

  • R?voir

    A genre-defying account of confinement and its literary echoes through history.As the pandemic sweeps through Paris in March 2020, the writer HC faces a choice: stay in Paris or flee to the countryside? The weight of historical responses bears down o...

  • Ręvoir

    A genre-defying account of confinement and its literary echoes through history. As the pandemic sweeps through Paris in March 2020, the writer HC faces a choice: stay in Paris or flee to the countryside? The weight of historical responses bears d...

  • Inuti

  • We Defy Augury

    We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come … the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet’s last act, Hélène Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new book -- and the latest...

  • The Selected Plays of H?l?ne Cixous

  • Tomb

    “In 1968-69 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides,” wrote Hélène Cixous, esteemed French feminist, playwright, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. Instead of suicide, she began to dr...

  • Tombe

    “In 1968-69 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides,” wrote Hélène Cixous, esteemed French feminist, playwright, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. Instead of suicide, she began to dr...

  • Eve Escapes

    "I get up every day with one day more," says Eve, the writer's 97-year-old mother. She is escaping into the New Life and the writer must race to catch up. As things slip away and fall into oblivion, as her mother's world and thus her own relentlessly...



  • Hyperdream

    Hyperdream is a major new novel by celebrated French authorHĂ©lène Cixous. It is a literary tour de force, returninganew to challenge necessity itself, the most implacable of humancertainties: you die in the end â€" and that’s the end.For you, for...

  • Manhattan: Letters from Prehistory

    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...

  • Day I Wasn't There

    In this memoir-novel, a narrator who resembles Hélène Cixous obsessively recounts an incident--the premature death of her first-born child, a Down Syndrome baby left in the care of the clinic in Algeria where her midwife mother works. She uses this...

  • Stigmata: Escaping Texts

    A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Hélène Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread,...

  • The Third Body

    In The Third Body, the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist Hélène Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical insights, and intertextual citations of and conversat...

  • First Days Of The Year

  • Manna: For the Mandelstams for the Mandelas

    In this act of willful writing, by turns lyrical and intense, Helene Cixous brings Osip Mandelstam and Nelson Mandela together through the common first syllables of their names, the dates of their respective exiles, and the women, Nadezhda Mandelstam...

  • The Book of Promethea

    In writing Le Livre de Promethea Hélène Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language. She describes a love between two women in its totality, experienced as both a physical presence and a sense of...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Helene Cixous has published 17 books.

The next book by Helene Cixous, Angst, will be published in June 2026.

The first book by Helene Cixous, The Book of Promethea, was published in February 1991.

No. Helene Cixous does not write books in series.
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