Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death - Or Language Haunted By Sex

Julia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to bear on the tormented and visionary Russian author.

List of contents

Preface
Part I: The Flood of Language
1. The Condemned Man, the Sacred Malady, and the Sun
2. Dostoyevsky, "Author of My Life"
3. In the Steps of the Liberated Convict
4. Beyond Neurosis
5. The God-Man, the Man-God
6. The Purloined Letter
7. Everything Is Permitted
Part II: A Carnivalesque Theologian
8. The Russian Virus
9. Christocentrism
10. The Pleasures of Evil and Misfortune
11. The National Christ
12. Catholicism, Atheism, Nihilism
13. The Nihilist Seeking God
14. Laughter, Spokesperson for the Obscene
15. "The Novel Is a Poem"
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

Summary

Julia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to bear on the tormented and visionary Russian author.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Kristeva
• Assisted by: Armine Kotin Mortimer (Translation), Mortimer Armine Kotin (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2023
• EAN: 9780231210515
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21051-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Russian, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, literary criticism; philosophy