Susan Suleiman sets forth in this insightful work an intimate and provocative exchange with contemporary writers and artists such as Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Cixous, Elie Wiesel, Mary Gordon, Max Ernst and Angela Carter. Suleiman includes us in her voyages of self-discovery as she confronts the conflicts between the problematic and crucial relations between individual life-story and collective history.

Susan Rubin Suleiman is the Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

Read More by Susan Rubin Suleiman:

• The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives
• Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde
• Coming to Writing" and Other Essays
• Crises of Memory and the Second World War