Table of Contents

'Intra-duction'.

Author's Note.

Zero's Neighbour.

For a final attempt to be done with ending in body and soul with Beckett.

Notes.

About the Author

Helene Cixous is one of the world's leadingwriters. She is the founder and former director of the Centre deRecherche en Etudes Femininesat the Universite deParis VIII. Translated by Laurent Milesi.

Reviews

"Although a slim book, each page flairs wildly with linguisticplay: puns, double entendres, and off-rhymes, a collapsing ofBeckett's words with Cixous's, a combinatory style, this is a stageof shadows looming near zero, near nothing or near death or nearimmortality. Or perhaps closer to the infinite." Review of Contemporary Fiction "A fascinating meditation by one wordsmith on another: Cixous'stext reflects not only on Beckett and her relations to his work butalso on the very nature of translation itself." Christina Howells "'Precious little,' quotes Cixous from Beckett, finding theprecise intersection between her own expansive, luscious prose andBeckett's stark and hilarious minimalism. Zero's Neighbour is a fascinating and fantastic confrontation between two verydifferent, equally admirable, proponents of the art of living one'swriting out of the certainty of nothing." Geoffrey Bennington, Emory University "This book promises to become as influential in Beckett studiesas its author's writings on Joyce proved to be for Joyce studies. Awork of poetry as much as of criticism by one great writer onanother, this text will be of interest to anyone concerned withquestioning the literary experience." Mairead Hanrahan, University College London