VeilsStanford University Press, 2001 - 108 strán (strany) Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Hélène Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia, an experience that ends with the unexpected turn of grieving for what is lost. Her literary inventiveness mines the coincidence in French between the two verbs savoir (to know) and voir (to see). Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" complexly muses on a host of autobiographical, philosophical, and religious motifs including his varied responses to "Savoir." The two texts are accompanied by six beautiful and evocative drawings that play on the theme of drapery over portions of the body. Veils suspends sexual difference between two homonyms: la voile (sail) and le voile (veil). A whole history of sexual difference is enveloped, sometimes dissimulated here in the folds of sails and veils and in the turns, journeys, and returns of their metaphors and metonymies. However foreign to each other they may appear, however autonomous they may be, the two texts participate in a common genre: autobiography, confession, memoirs. The future also enters in: by opening to each other, the two discourses confide what is about to happen, the imminence of an event lacking any common measure with them or with anything else, an operation that restores sight and plunges into mourning the knowledge of the previous night, a "verdict" whose threatening secret remains out of reach by our knowledge. |
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already Authorized version avowal belong bless blind body braid Celan Chouraqui circumcision coming corpus culture cumcision curtain death dream everything eyes face fantasy fatigue feminine French French language Freud give glory hand happened head Hélène Cixous hide holy Ibid infinite ipseity Jacques Derrida Jean-François Lyotard Jean-Luc Nancy knowledge l'autre labial consonant language laser late lenses lifting linen lips living mean miracle Moses mourning myopia nature never Niklas Luhmann oneself operation Paul Celan penis phallus poem pray prayer Prosthesis purple remains resurrection revelation sails Saint Paul Samuel Weber São Paulo Savoir secret sericulture sero shawl shroud sight silk Silkworm of One's skin tallith tefillin thing thread touch trans translation Translator's note truth tunic tzitzith unique unto unveiling veil véraison verdict veridicity visible voilà voile wear weaving woman wool woolen fringes word worm wrapped