Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex 1st Edition by Julia Kristeva ISBN 0231558457 9780231558457

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ISBN 10: 0231558457 
ISBN 13: 9780231558457
Author: Julia Kristeva

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. Kristeva ranges widely across Dostoyevsky’s novels and his journalism, plunging deep into the great works—and many of the smaller ones—to investigate her fascination with the Russian author. What emerges is a luminous vision of the writer’s achievements, seen in a wholly new way through Kristeva’s distinctive perspective on language. With her keen psychoanalytical eye, she offers brilliant insights into the passionate heroines of the great novels. Focusing on Dostoyevsky’s polyphonic writing, Kristeva also demonstrates the importance of Orthodox Christianity throughout his body of work, analyzing the complex ways his carnivalesque theology informs his fiction and commentary. An original and profound interpretation of one of the nineteenth century’s greatest writers, this book’s insights are also relevant to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—up to our unsettled present, to which Kristeva’s humane reading of the suffering Russian author brings understanding and even solace.

Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex 1st Table of contents:

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”

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