Tomb(e)

In 1968-69 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides,” wrote Hlène Cixous, esteemed French feminist, playwright, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. Instead of suicide, she began to dream of writing a tomb for herself. This tomb became a work that is a testament to Cixouss life and spirit and a secret book, the first book she ever authored. Originally written in 1970,Tombeis a Homerian recasting of ShakespearesVenus and Adonisin the thickets of Central Park, a book Cixous provocatively calls the “all-powerful-other of all my books, it sparks them off, makes them run, it is their Messiah.”