{"product_id":"dostoyevsky-in-the-face-of-death-9780231210515","title":"Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoetic, stunning, fascinating, and deeply insightful, Kristeva’s readings of Dostoyevsky are as much about us and our time as they are about him and his works. This book is a celebration of literature and language as an antidote to the extremes of nihilism and fundamentalism that still threaten us today. -- Kelly Oliver, philosopher, novelist, and professor emerita, Vanderbilt University\u003cbr\u003eThe full force of Julia Kristeva’s lifetime of (psycho)analyzing revolutionary writers and speaking beings come together in this masterful analysis of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s life and work. Dostoyevsky’s polyphonic novels, as Kristeva brilliantly shows, exemplify the human capacity for sublimation. Decades before Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and its primary processes, Dostoyevsky was very deliberately wielding the sting of the negative, turning demons into words, new meanings, and art. -- Noëlle McAfee, author of \u003ci\u003eFear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Flood of Language\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Condemned Man, the Sacred Malady, and the Sun\u003cbr\u003e2. Dostoyevsky, “Author of My Life”\u003cbr\u003e3. In the Steps of the Liberated Convict\u003cbr\u003e4. Beyond Neurosis\u003cbr\u003e5. The God-Man, the Man-God\u003cbr\u003e6. The Purloined Letter\u003cbr\u003e7. Everything Is Permitted\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: A Carnivalesque Theologian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. The Russian Virus\u003cbr\u003e9. Christocentrism\u003cbr\u003e10. The Pleasures of Evil and Misfortune\u003cbr\u003e11. The National Christ\u003cbr\u003e12. Catholicism, Atheism, Nihilism\u003cbr\u003e13. The Nihilist Seeking God\u003cbr\u003e14. Laughter, Spokesperson for the Obscene\u003cbr\u003e15. “The Novel Is a Poem”\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864264618327,"sku":"9780231210515","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231210515.jpg?v=1722271140","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dostoyevsky-in-the-face-of-death-9780231210515","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}