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On the Motion & Immobility of Douve: Du mouvement et de l'immobilite de Douve by Yves Bonnefoy (Paperback, 1992)

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Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN 13: 9781852241322. New: New books are in mint condition, normally sourced directly from publishers. Used-like N : The book pretty much look like a new book. There will be no stains or markings on the book, the cover is clean and crisp, the book will look unread, the only marks there may be are slight bumping marks to the edges of the book where it may have been on a shelf previously.

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Ostensibly, the volume is about a female lover, Douve. Douve, though, is the French word for a moat, that uncrossable body which separates us from safety and from danger. With this undercurrent at work we read the poems as if they are about the divide between us and death as much as they are about the divide between us and the untouchable reality of text. This is dangerous writing, fulfilling Derrida's fatal necessity by making us substitute the textual sign for reality.