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Kristeva's books span diverse disciplines, making them essential for those interested in \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the \u003cstrong\u003ehuman condition\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dostoyevsky-or-the-flood-of-language-by-julia-kristeva-9780231203333","title":"Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. “Of course, and as usual,” she recalls, “I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed.” Kristeva would go on to become one of the most important figures in European intellectual life—and she would return over and over again to Dostoyevsky, still haunted and enraptured by the force of his writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it has influenced her own thinking. Reading across his major novels and shorter works, Kristeva offers incandescent insights into the potent themes that draw her back to the Russian master: God, otherness, violence, eroticism, the mother, the father, language itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth personal and erudite, the book intermingles Kristeva’s analysis with her recollections of Dostoyevsky’s significance in different intellectual moments—the rediscovery of Bakhtin in the Thaw-era Eastern Bloc, the debates over poststructuralism in 1960s France, and today’s arguments about whether it can be said that “everything is permitted.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrilliant and vivid, this is an essential book for admirers of both Kristeva and Dostoyevsky. 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Meanwhile, Sebastian Chrest-Jones, a noted professor of human migrations clandestinely writing a novel about the Byzantine princess-historian Anna Comnena, disappears on a quest to learn more about an ancestor who roamed across Europe to Byzantium during the First Crusade. Kristeva's recurring characters, detective Northrop Rilsky and the French journalist Stephanie Delacour, step in and desperately try to piece together the two-part mystery in the midst of their unexpected love affair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Umberto Eco, Susan Sontag, and Ian McEwan, Kristeva skillfully weaves philosophical and critical ideas into her fiction. Peering into the mores, obsessions, and excesses of contemporary society, Kristeva offers an engrossing portrait of Santa Varvara, a paradoxical place of sunshine and pollution where skeletons lurk in the closets of politicians and oil company executives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer descriptions of the First Crusade and the Byzantine Empire vividly evoke a distant past while speaking to such contemporary concerns as immigration, fundamentalism, terrorism, and the East-West divide. \u003cem\u003eMurder in Byzantium\u003c\/em\u003e is also the only work in which Kristeva explores her Bulgarian roots. In the midst of this rich, multilayered historical novel, Kristeva also presents three stunning, closely observed, and interlocking portraits of characters struggling with loss and emptiness in their personal histories and day-to-day lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46792298463468,"sku":"9780231222648","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8283183482270.jpg?v=1757000888"},{"product_id":"proust-and-the-sense-of-time-by-julia-kristeva-9780231220897","title":"Proust and the Sense of Time","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJulia Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of Proust's \u003cem\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/em\u003e, first delivered at the 1992 T.S. 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The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time—hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds—until the year 9999. Passemant's clock brings the nature of time into sharp focus in Julia Kristeva's intricate, poetic novel \u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted Clock\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNivi Delisle, a psychoanalyst and magazine editor, nearly drowns while swimming off the Île de Ré; the astrophysicist Theo Passemant fishes her out of the water. They become lovers. While Theo wonders if he is descended from the clockmaker Passemant, Nivi's son Stan, who suffers from occasional comas, develops a passion for the remarkable clock at Versailles. 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Over a twenty-five year period, the characters experience countless battles involving love, depression, maternity, and disease, while the various themes of the text—language, prison, madness, emotional ruptures—are brought to fruition with astounding insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a novel whose enormous energy derives from the juxtaposition of vital ideas set on a broad historical canvas. Fluid and captivating, \u003cem\u003eThe Samurai\u003c\/em\u003e brilliantly illuminates both the constantly shifting terrain of human relationships and the manifold psychological entanglements of Left Bank intellectuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47398058623212,"sku":"9780231220903","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8265733482270.jpg?v=1773739388"},{"product_id":"desire-in-language-by-julia-kristeva-9780231214551","title":"Desire in Language","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDesire in Language\u003c\/em\u003e traces the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. 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While Stephanie Delacour probes a brilliant gallery of suspects, we read between the lines some of the sorrows and dilemmas that are the focus of Kristeva's own life and work: motherhood and the complex relationship between mother and child; art and music; psychoanalysis; mourning and melancholia; language; the powers of horror; and the hostility aroused by a competent, gifted, and attractive woman who is at once devotedly maternal and capable of sexual passion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47406338965740,"sku":"9780231220880","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/415TbX1aLIL.jpg?v=1773962972"},{"product_id":"powers-of-horror-by-julia-kristeva-9780231214575","title":"Powers of Horror","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJulia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. 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