Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva (Юлия Кръстева; 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is a Professor at the University Paris Diderot. Kristeva became influential in international critical analysis, cultural theory and feminism after publishing her book Séméiôtiké in 1969.

Works

(in French unless noted otherwise)

• Le Langage, cet inconnu. Une initiation à la linguistique, SGPP, 1969, Paris: Seuil, 1981. Published under the name Julia Joyaux.
  • El lenguaje, ese desconocido, Editorial Fundamentos, 1969, PDF. (Spanish)

• Séméiôtiké: recherches pour une sémanalyse, Paris: Seuil, 1969.
  • Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, Oxford: Blackwell, 1980, PDF. (English)

• La Révolution Du Langage Poétique: L'avant-Garde À La Fin Du Xixe Siècle, Lautréamont Et Mallarmé, Paris: Seuil, 1974; 1985.
  • Revolution in Poetic Language, New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Abridged trans. (English)

• Des Chinoises, Des Femmes, 1974; Pauvert, 2001.
  • About Chinese Women, London: Boyars, 1977. (English)

• Polylogue, Paris: Seuil, 1977.

• Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection, Paris: Seuil, 1980, DJV.
  • Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, trans. Leon S. Roudiez, New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. (English)

• Histoires d'amour, Paris: Denoël, 1983.
  • Tales of Love,trans. Leon S. Roudiez, New York: Columbia UP, 1987, PDF. (English)

• Au commencement était l'amour. Psychanalyse et foi, Textes du xxe siècle, Hachette, 1985.
• Al Comienzo era el Amor: Psicoanálisis y Fe, trans. Graciela Klein, Buenos Aires: Gedisa, 1986; 2002, PDF. (Spanish)
  • In the Beginning Was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. (English)

• Soleil noir. Dépression et mélancolie, Paris: Gallimard, 1987; 1994.
  • Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Columbia University Press, 1989; 1992, PDF. (English)

• with Catherine Clément, Le Féminin et le Sacré, Paris: Editions Stock, 1988.
  • The Feminine and the sacred, trans. Jane Marie Todd, Columbia University Press and Palgrave, 2001. (English)

• Étrangers à nous-mêmes, Paris: Fayard, 1988.
  • Strangers to Ourselves, Columbia University Press, 1991, PDF. (English)

• Les Nouvelles Maladies de l'âme, Paris: Fayard, 1993.
  • New Maladies of the Soul, Columbia University Press, 1995. (English)

• La révolution du langage poétique, Paris: Seuil, 1998, PDF.

• Visions Capitales, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1998; Martinière, 2013.
  • The Severed Head: Capital Visions, Columbia University Press, 2011. (English)

• Le Génie féminin, 1: Hannah Arendt, Paris: Fayard, 1999; 2003; t. 2: Melanie Klein, Paris: Gallimard, 2003; t. 3: Colette, Paris: Fayard, 2002.
  • Hannah Arendt, trans. Ross Guberman, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. (English)
  • Female Genius: Life, Madness, Words: Hannah Arendt, Melanie Klein, Colette: A Trilogy, 3 vols., Columbia University Press, 2001.

• Hannah Arendt: Life is a Narrative, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. (English)

• with Philippe Petit, Revolt, She Said, trans. Brian O’Keeffe, ed. Sylvère Lotringer, New York: Semiotext(e), 2002, Log. Interview. (English)

• La Haine et le Pardon, Paris: Fayard, 2005.
  • Hatred and Forgiveness, Columbia University Press, 2010. (English)

• Meurtre à Byzance, Paris: LGF, 2006.
  • Murder in Byzantium: A Novel, trans. C. Jon Delogu, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. (English)

Selected works

• The Kristeva Reader, ed. Toril Moi, Columbia University Press, 1986. (English)
• Slovo, dialog a román. Texty o sémiotice, trans. Josef Fulka, Prague: Sofis & Pastelka, 1999, 81 pp, PDF, PDF. (Czech)
• Crisis of the European Subject, New York: Other Press, 2000. Collection of four essays. (English)
• more at ARG

Literature

• Clare Cavanagh, "Pseudo-Revolution in Poetic Language: Julia Kristeva and the Russian Avant-Garde", Slavic Review 52:2 (Summer 1993), pp 283-297. (English)
• Noelle McAfee, Julia Kristeva, New York and London: Routledge, 2004. (English)
• Tina Chanter, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek (eds.), Revolt, Affect, Collectivity. The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis, SUNY Press, 2005. (English)
• Alice Jardine, At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva, Bloomsbury, 2020. (English)

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Kristeva
• http://www.egs.edu/library/julia-kristeva/bibliography/