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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 nove... Read More about Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death: Or Language Haunted by Sex (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

An agonizing turbulence lies just beneath the surface of this skillfully wrought novel by the French phenom who caused a sensation with the publication of her novel Incest.Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a danc... Read More about An Impossible Love

In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king's engineer, Claude-Sim on Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time--hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds--until ... Read More about The Enchanted Clock

In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king's engineer, Claude-Simeon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time--hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds--until ... Read More about The Enchanted Clock

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 nove... Read More about Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death: Or Language Haunted by Sex (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Everyone agrees that Balzac is a realistic writer, but what do we actually mean when we say that? This book examines the richness and variety of Balzac’s approaches to realism, employing several different interpretive methods. Taking love and money as the “Prime Movers” of the world of La Comédie hu... Read More about For Love or for Money: Balzac's Rhetorical Realism