Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language by Kristeva, Julia

Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231203333)

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Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language by Kristeva, Julia

Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language

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Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language by Kristeva, Julia

Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Growing 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.

In 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. Both 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." Brilliant and vivid, this is an essential book for admirers of both Kristeva and Dostoyevsky. It also features an illuminating foreword by Rowan Williams that reflects on the significance of Kristeva's reading of Dostoyevsky for his own understanding of religious writing.

Author: Julia Kristeva
ISBN-10: 0231203330
ISBN-13: 9780231203333
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
By Julia Kristeva
By Julia Kristeva
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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."

Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, is the author of many books, including Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (2008).

Jody Gladding is a poet who has translated dozens of works from French, including Kristeva's The Severed Head: Capital Visions (Columbia, 2014).

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