Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language

by Julia Kristeva

Book Overview

Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. "Of course, and as usual," she recalls, "I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed." Kristeva would go on to become one of the most important figures in European intellectual life--and she would return over and over again to Dostoyevsky, still haunted and enraptured by the force of his writing.

In this book, Kristeva...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231203322
• ISBN13: 9780231203326
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"