Possessions Hardcover - 1998
by Julia Kristeva; Barbara Bray (Translator)
This sequel to the author's celebrated novel THE OLD MAN AND THE WOLVES features the return of Parisian amateur detective and newspaper reporter Stephanie Delacour, drawn into the mystery of the murder of a friend whose headless body is found at the victim's house. While her heroine probes a brilliant gallery of suspects, we read between the lines some of the sorrow and dilemmas of the author's own life and work.
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This sequel to Julia Kristeva's celebrated allegory The Old Man and the Wolves returns to the corrupt seaside resort of a mythical town, where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarism, and good and evil are erased. Part mystery, part meditation, this engrossing tale features the return of Parisian amateur detective and newspaper reporter Stephanie Delacour (Kristeva's alter ego), drawn into the mystery of a friend's murder. The story opens with the gruesome discovery of the decapitated body of gifted translator Gloria Harrison. Delacour finds herself participating in the investigation in the company of Detective Superintendent Northrup Rilsky. As the mystery unfolds, Delacour veers away from Rilsky's investigation, on to a trail that leads to the real killer. Kristeva uses the classic thriller genre to animate the themes that run through her work as a linguist and philosopher. While Stephanie Delacour probes a brilliant gallery of suspects, we read between the lines some of the sorrows and dilemmas that are the focus of Kristeva's own life and work: motherhood and the complex relationship between mother and child; art and music; psychoanalysis; mourning and melancholia; language; the powers of horror; and the hostility aroused by a competent, gifted, and attractive woman who is at once devotedly maternal and capable of sexual passion.
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- Title Possessions
- Author Julia Kristeva; Barbara Bray (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, Irvington, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-01-27
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780231109987 / 0231109989
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.36 x 6.34 x 0.85 in (23.77 x 16.10 x 2.16 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Europe, Eastern - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97029554
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/15/1998, Page 982
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/1998, Page 21
- Library Journal, 02/01/1998, Page 111
- New York Times, 04/05/1998, Page 35
- Publishers Weekly, 01/26/1998, Page 71
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