In this extraordinary volume, Derrida responds to Dream I Tell You, by his friend and fellow intellectual, Hélène Cixous. Derrid explores the nature of the literary archive and the production of literature, arguing that Cixous is today the most important writer working within the French idiom. From here he explores the notion of a female genius, with Cixous as the impish genie of the title who subverts and converts all genres and genealogies of literature.