Oublire: Cixous's poetics of forgetting

Helene Cixous' or, les lettres de mon pere, deals with the discovery of let ters written by her father, who died while she was still a child, to her mo ther during their engagement. The text is divided into two sections: the fi rst offers reflections on reading, and the second explores the autobiograph ical importance of the letters' resurfacing after several decades. The arti cle examines the significance of the narrator's experience by focusing on t he "correspondence" between the two sections and arguing that reading Or is , above all, a lesson in reading.