Writing in the Gust. About Hélène Cixious
Hélène Cixous conceives of literature as a perilous craft, opening up a space through which it dynamically demands to break the mooring lines and pass through, whatever the cost. Drawing on recent stories by the writer (L’Amour du loup et autres remords, 2003 ; Défions l’augure, 2018), we will explore the principles of an injunction to write. To this end, the selected intertextual corpus—via Michel de Certeau, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida in particular—will attempt to identify how writing is the result of an event-driven storm (as much as of a mystical impulse, a departure, a risk to be taken). By conferring on the act of writing all the characteristics of a genuine break-in, we will broaden its existential power, putting it into perspective with contemporary philosophers of the act of creation, such as Patrice Loraux and Paul Audi.