Colette

Julia Kristeva

Paper, 448 pages, 10 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-12897-1
$24.00 / £14.00

July, 2004
Cloth, 448 pages, 10 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-12896-4
Columbia Uni© Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2002; Translation Copyright © XXXX Columbia University Pressversity Press
$75.50 / £44.50

"This scholarly biography, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Colette's death, is not a scandal sheet but a psychoanalysis of Colette in which Kristeva uses psycholinguistics to explore the author's work and life. . . . Recommended for academic libraries." — Library Journal

"Persuasive and entertaining. As an account of how Colette's writing works through vivid and sexualized metaphor, it's quite superb. . . . Kristeva and Colette are a brilliant coupling." — The Times (London)

"part psychoanalysis, part apologia--all based in love." — Julia Balen, Women's Review of Books

"A major study on a figure who remains one of France's most underrated writers." — Julien Bisson, France Today

"This is a wonderful book by one of the finest minds of our time." — Michael Payne, Daily Item

Related Subjects

• European and British Literature

Series

• European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

About the Author

Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the University of Paris VII. A world-renowned psychoanalyst and literary theorist, she is the author of many books, including Hannah Arendtand Melanie Klein (both published by Columbia). Jane Marie Todd is a translator living in Portland, Oregon. She has published some thirty translations, including Catherine Clément and Julia Kristeva's The Feminine and the Sacred (Columbia).

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