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Book SynopsisJulia 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.
Trade ReviewPart spiritual autobiography, part free association, Kristeva’s study of Dostoyevsky becomes the occasion for a journey through the life of the mind. In searing harmony with her subject, she once again demonstrates how it is only out of the depths of abjection that human creativity is born. One of her most exuberant and challenging works,
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language offers us Dostoyevsky as lascivious, blasphemous, and saint, taking us into the core of Kristeva’s unique vision. -- Jacqueline Rose, author of
On Violence and On Violence Against WomenDostoevsky, as Kristeva’s reminder about language and the sacred helps us guess, loves religious mischief precisely because he cares so much about religious faith. -- Michael Wood * London Review of Books *
Dostoyevsky scholars will find this worth a look. * Publishers Weekly *
One need not be a post-structural scholar to appreciate how a reading of Dostoevsky’s many voices can help navigate this world’s 'unresolvable tensions.' * Christian Century *
Table of ContentsKristeva’s Dostoyevsky: The Arrival of the Human, by Rowan Williams
Preface
Can You Like Dostoyevsky?
Crimes and Pardons
The God-Man, the Man-God
The Second Sex Outside of Sex
Children, Rapes, and Sensual Pleasures
Everything Is Permitted
Notes
Index
