{"product_id":"the-enchanted-clock-9780231180467","title":"The Enchanted Clock","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia Kristeva’s intricate, multifaceted novel \u003ci\u003eThe Enchanted Clock\u003c\/i\u003e is built around a golden astronomical clock in the Palace of Versailles. Part detective mystery, part historical fiction, and full of ruminations on memory, love, and the transcendence of linear time, it is one of the most illuminating works of one of France’s great thinkers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA veritable tour de force that infuses the novelistic genre with theatrical and essayistic undertones. -- Verena Conley, Harvard University An original, creative narrative on the topic of time, cognizant of a complex intellectual world while also telling a beautiful and compelling story. -- Carol Bove, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Pittsburgh and Professor Emerita of French, Westminster College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Versailles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. When?\u003cbr\u003e2. “THEO.” What a Story!\u003cbr\u003e3. My Name is Claude-Siméon Passemant\u003cbr\u003e4. Nivi Can See Him as If She Were There . . .\u003cbr\u003e5. Even Though Time Disappears\u003cbr\u003e6. I Dream, Therefore I Am\u003cbr\u003e7. At the Collège Mazarin, During the Regency\u003cbr\u003e8. Now\u003cbr\u003e9. Where Are You, Astro of Mine?\u003cbr\u003e10. King, God, and Complex Time\u003cbr\u003e11. Louis the Beloved\u003cbr\u003e12. The Famous Clock\u003cbr\u003e13. Among the Convulsionaries\u003cbr\u003e14. Someone Has Whispered a Sentence in My Sleep\u003cbr\u003e15. “You Are My Depth”\u003cbr\u003e16. Mama, Are You French?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Black Matter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17. Inside–Outside\u003cbr\u003e18. What Is an Internal Coup d’État?\u003cbr\u003e19. I Have Again Dreamed of Your Ancestor\u003cbr\u003e20. Passemant with the Cassinis\u003cbr\u003e21. Here I Am at the Place de l’Étoile\u003cbr\u003e22. Happiness and Fire: With Émilie du Châtelet\u003cbr\u003e23. Do New Patients Exist?\u003cbr\u003e24. In Praise of Illusions\u003cbr\u003e25. Marianne’s Silhouette\u003cbr\u003e26. The Dream of the Primordial Universe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Rebirth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e27. Death Is Not News\u003cbr\u003e28. Overdose\u003cbr\u003e29. Once Again I Have Broken with the Human Race\u003cbr\u003e30. A Ray of Icy Light\u003cbr\u003e31. Revolutions Start Like This\u003cbr\u003e32. Hyperconnectivity\u003cbr\u003e33. Common Intensities, Strange Intimacies\u003cbr\u003e34. Scenes from Life at Court\u003cbr\u003e35. Theo Has Just Landed\u003cbr\u003e36. Variations on Suicide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. The Theft of the Clock\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e37. 9999 Has Been Stolen\u003cbr\u003e38. Beauty Spots\u003cbr\u003e39. Superluminal Speed\u003cbr\u003e40. Inestimable Trophy\u003cbr\u003e41. Signed, Passemant\u003cbr\u003e42. The King Is Naked; or, The Beginning of an End\u003cbr\u003e43. What If He’s the One!\u003cbr\u003e44. Aubane Would Have Preferred to Evaporate\u003cbr\u003e45. Jealousy? What Jealousy?\u003cbr\u003e46. Conspiracy for a Cause\u003cbr\u003e47. Together Again: The King and His Clockmaker\u003cbr\u003e48. Beehive\u003cbr\u003e49. Where Were You?\u003cbr\u003e50. What the Press Wasn’t Saying\u003cbr\u003e51. Paradise Is at the Lux\u003cbr\u003e52. Silence and Poem\u003cbr\u003e53. Rose Laurels","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400313119063,"sku":"9780231180467","price":23.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-enchanted-clock-9780231180467","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}