Marriage as a Fine Art Contributor(s): Kristeva, Julia (Author), Sollers, Philippe (Author), Scott Fox, Lorna (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0231180101 ISBN-13: 9780231180108 Publisher: Columbia University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2016 |
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BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
Dewey: 848.914 |
LCCN: 2016021195 |
Age Level: 22-UP |
Grade Level: 17-UP |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.7" L (0.60 lbs) 128 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product |
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Publisher Description: "We found so much to say, to share, to learn.... For it wasn't just the Marquis de Sade profile and the sporty thighs-and-calves that seduced me. It was even more, perhaps, or certainly just as much, the speed at which you used to read, and still do."--Julia Kristeva "We're married, Julia and I, that's a fact, but we each have our own personalities, our own name, activities, and freedom. Love is the full recognition of the other in their otherness. If this other is very close to you, as in this case, it seems to me that what's at stake is harmony within difference. The difference between men and women is irreducible; there's no possibility of fusion."--Philippe Sollers Marriage as a Fine Art is an enchanting series of exchanges in which Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers, married for fifty years, speak candidly about their love. Though they live separately, Kristeva and Sollers are fully committed to each other. Their bond is intellectual and psychological, passionate and mundane. They share everything when together, and lose themselves in their interests when apart. Their marriage is art, rich with history and meaning, idiosyncratic, and dynamic in its expression. Yet it is also as common as they come. Kristeva and Sollers have lived through the same challenges, peaks, and lulls as all married couples do. With humor and honesty, they elaborate on these moments, turning marriage's familiar aspects into exceptional examples of relating, struggling, transcending, and being. Marriage as a Fine Art is a rare chance to know these intellectuals--and marriage--more intimately. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kristeva, Julia: - Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including The Severed Head: Capital Visions, This Incredible Need to Believe, Hatred and Forgiveness, and Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila, all published by Columbia. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize. |
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