Incinarration by Hélène Cixous

Incinarration by Hélène Cixous

A genre-defying book about survival, transformation, and the human ability to rise from the ashes.

Hélène Cixous’s powerful new book, masterfully translated by Peggy Kamuf, is a vivid journey through fire. From the ashes of wars, wildfires, and upheaval, Cixous traces a dramatic path across time—from the Second World War and the Nazi occupation of Oran to the European wildfires of 2022—weaving a rich, intimate narrative that merges history, autobiography, and myth. With her piercing, lyrical voice, Cixous confronts the human cost of destruction and upheaval, and asks a universal question: What do we carry with us when everything we know is falling to ashes?

In Incinarration, Cixous finds hope in the power of words, memory, and imagination to illuminate our darkest moments and redeem the future. As forests burn and regimes collapse, Cixous shows us how stories become a form of resistance—a way to remember, to bear testimony, and to find renewal in the face of oblivion.

Hélène Cixous is professor emeritus 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, including Mdeilmm, Rêvoir, Well-Kept Ruins, We Defy Augury, and Tomb(e). Peggy Kamuf is professor emerita of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Her most recent book is Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty.

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ISBN 13	9781803096285
ISBN 10	1803096284
Title	Incinarration
Author	Hélène Cixous
Series	The French List
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Seagull Books
Year published	2026-06-05
Number of pages	152
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