Teresa, My Love An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love follows Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with charting her life. Traveling to Spain, Leclercq, Kristevas probing alterego, visits the sites and embodiments of the famous mystic and awakens to her own desire for faith, connection, and rebellion.

Info autore

Julia Kristeva, geb. in Bulgarien, seit 1966 in Frankreich lebend, gehört zu den renommiertesten Sprachwissenschaftlerinnen und Psychoanalytikerinnen sowie kritischen intellektuellen Frankreichs. 2004 erhielt sie den norwegischen Holberg-Preis, 2006 den Hannah-Arendt-Preis für politisches Denken; zahlreiche Ehrendoktorwürden, Auszeichnungen und Preise. Sie ist Professorin am Institut Universitaire de France und schrieb einflussreiche Bücher über Psychoanalyse, Literatur und Sprache.

Riassunto

In the vein of A. S. Byatt’s Possession, a scholar immerses herself in a quest to reconstruct the life of an ecstatic saint, turning a past world into a modern marvel.

Relazione

"The book is written with force, drive, and a verbal agility that carries the reader off and turns the book into a page-turner." - Verena Conley, Harvard University

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Julia Kristeva
• Con la collaborazione di: Lorna Scott Fox (Traduzione), Scott Fox (Traduzione), Lorna Scott-Fox (Traduzione)
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 23.12.2014
• Categoria: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazi; Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9780231149600
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14960-0
• Numero di pagine: 648
• Categorie: FICTION / Historical / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, Fiction, RELIGION / Christianity / Saints & Sainthood, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Philosophy of religion, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, RELIGION / Christian Living / Women's Interests, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis