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Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex


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English | ISBN: 0231210507 | 2023 | 344 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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.

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Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language


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English | ISBN: 0231203322 | 2021 | 112 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
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 lifeā€•and she would return over and over again to Dostoyevsky, still haunted and enraptured by the force of his writing.

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