In writing Le Livre de Promethea Hélène Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language.
Hélène Cixous is also author of the play The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, translated by Juliet Flower MacCannell, Judith Pike, and Lollie Groth (Nebraska 1994)..
A collection of her fiction, Look Out for Hydrophobia, was published in 1990.
She translated Catherine Clément and Hélène Cixous\'s La Jeune Née (The Newly Born Woman) into English in 1986.
Betsy Wing is a freelance translator and fiction writer.
Cixous, in The Book of Promethea, works to repair the separation between fiction and presence, trying to chronicle a very-present love without destroying it in the writing.
In her introduction Betsy Wing notes the contemporary emphasis on fictions of presence.
Its translation into English by Betsy Wing will extend the influence of a writer already famous for her novels and contributions to feminist theory.
The result is a stunning example of Pecriture feminine that won kudos when published in France in 1983.
She describes a love between two women in its totality, experienced as both a physical presence and a sense of infinity.
In writing Le Livre de Promethea Hélène Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language
