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 success. She waits for their letters and imagines their contents. In a dream-like, torrid sequence, suffering, fear, fatigue and imperfection are apostrophised. Forgetting is examined and toyed with from every angle. Mythical hybrid creatures are invoked: a snake-headed lion, wolf-snakes, a wolf-peacock. How did this come to be? In a cunningly, wittily wrought rush, the unique, unpredictable voice of the narrator speaks from multiple perspectives to express powerful anguish and, ultimately, catharsis.

Author: Helene Cixous
Publisher: Silver Press
Published: 06/01/2026
Pages: 172
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.79h x 5.16w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781739371777

About the Author
Webster, Jamieson: - Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is the author of several books, most recently On Breathing, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.Cixous, Helene: - Helene Cixous was born in Oran, Algeria, and is emeritus professor of literature at the Université Paris VIII, where she founded and directed the Centre de recherches en études féminines. She is the author of more than seventy works of fiction, plays, and collections of critical essays; recent titles in English translation include *So Close*, *Zero's Neighbour: Sam Beckett, Hemlock, and Philippines.* In her 1975 essay 'The Laugh of the Medusa', she created the term *écriture féminine* to describe a uniquely feminine style of writing.Lewis, Sophie: - Sophie Lewis is a London-born translator and editor. Working from Portuguese and French, she has translated works by Victor Heringer, Cidinha da Silva, Patrícia Melo, Joao Gilberto Noll, Sheyla Smanioto and Micheliny Verunschk; as well as Marcel Ayme, Josephine Baker, Annie Ernaux, Violette Leduc, Noemi Lefebvre, Nastassja Martin, Françoise Sagan, Leila Slimani, Stendhal and Jules Verne, among others. With Gitanjali Patel, she co-founded the Shadow Heroes translation workshops enterprise. Lewis's translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prize.