Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

by Julia Kristeva

Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love turns a past world into a modern marvel, following Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with charting her life. Traveling to Spain, Leclercq, Julia Kristeva's probing alter ego, visits the sites and embodiments of the famous mystic and awakens to her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231149603
• ISBN13: 9780231149600
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher