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Julia Kristeva The Enchanted Clock (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Enchanted Clock : a Novel
- Publication Name
- The Enchanted Clock
- Title
- The Enchanted Clock
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Translator
- Armine Kotin Mortimer
- Contributor
- Armine Kotin Mortimer (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0231180470
- EAN
- 9780231180474
- ISBN
- 9780231180474
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Historical
- Release Date
- 29/10/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.8in
- Language
- English
- Original Language
- French
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Item Width
- 0.5in
- Item Weight
- 12.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king's engineer, Claude-Sim on Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time--hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds--until the year 9999. Passemant's clock brings the nature of time into sharp focus in Julia Kristeva's intricate, poetic novel The Enchanted Clock . Nivi Delisle, a psychoanalyst and magazine editor, nearly drowns while swimming off the le de R ; the astrophysicist Theo Passemant fishes her out of the water. They become lovers. While Theo wonders if he is descended from the clockmaker Passemant, Nivi's son Stan, who suffers from occasional comas, develops a passion for the remarkable clock at Versailles. Soon Nivi is fixated on its maker. But then the clock is stolen, and when a young writer for Nivi's magazine mysteriously dies, the clock is found near his body. The Enchanted Clock combines past and present, jumping back and forth between points of view and across eras from eighteenth-century Versailles to the present day. Its stylistically inventive narrative voices bring both immediacy and depth to our understanding of consciousness. Nivi's life resembles her creator's in many respects, coloring Kristeva's customary erudition with autobiographical poignancy. Part detective mystery, part historical fiction, The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted novel, full of poetic ruminations on memory, love, and the transcendence of linear time. It is one of the most illuminating works of one of France's great writers and thinkers.
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Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231180470
ISBN-13
9780231180474
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038262259
Product Key Features
Book Title
Enchanted Clock : a Novel
Original Language
French
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Historical
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
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Item Length
0.8in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.5in
Item Weight
12.9 Oz
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Julia Kristeva's L'horloge enchantée is a veritable tour de force, a brilliant piece of writing that infuses the novelistic genre with theatrical and essayistic undertones. Kristeva deftly weaves together multiple strands of a narrative that links a presently degraded state of France, Europe, and the world, in the grip of violence, fanaticism, rigid identity politics, anti-intellectualism, a general loss of quality of life, to the eve of revolution at the end of the eighteenth century., This translation of Julia Kristeva's The Enchanted Clock is expertly done. It is an easy and pleasant read that captures the content, tone, and rhythm of the original. A fascinating novel by one of France's most important intellectuals rendered into English by one of our best translators., Kristeva's marvelously strange novel about a woman captivated by an eighteenth-century artifact reads like a philosophical treatise wrapped in a love story with a little mystery mixed in., Kristeva's marvelously strange novel about a woman captivated by an 18th-century artifact reads like a philosophical treatise wrapped in a love story with a little mystery mixed in., An original, creative narrative on the topic of time, cognizant of a complex intellectual world while also telling a beautiful and compelling story.
Table of Content
I. Versailles 1. When? 2. "THEO." What a Story! 3. My Name is Claude-Siméon Passemant 4. Nivi Can See Him as If She Were There . . . 5. Even Though Time Disappears 6. I Dream, Therefore I Am 7. At the Collège Mazarin, During the Regency 8. Now 9. Where Are You, Astro of Mine? 10. King, God, and Complex Time 11. Louis the Beloved 12. The Famous Clock 13. Among the Convulsionaries 14. Someone Has Whispered a Sentence in My Sleep 15. "You Are My Depth" 16. Mama, Are You French? II. Black Matter 17. Inside-Outside 18. What Is an Internal Coup d'État? 19. I Have Again Dreamed of Your Ancestor 20. Passemant with the Cassinis 21. Here I Am at the Place de l'Étoile 22. Happiness and Fire: With Émilie du Ch'telet 23. Do New Patients Exist? 24. In Praise of Illusions 25. Marianne's Silhouette 26. The Dream of the Primordial Universe III. Rebirth 27. Death Is Not News 28. Overdose 29. Once Again I Have Broken with the Human Race 30. A Ray of Icy Light 31. Revolutions Start Like This 32. Hyperconnectivity 33. Common Intensities, Strange Intimacies 34. Scenes from Life at Court 35. Theo Has Just Landed 36. Variations on Suicide IV. The Theft of the Clock 37. 9999 Has Been Stolen 38. Beauty Spots 39. Superluminal Speed 40. Inestimable Trophy 41. Signed, Passemant 42. The King Is Naked; or, The Beginning of an End 43. What If He's the One! 44. Aubane Would Have Preferred to Evaporate 45. Jealousy? What Jealousy? 46. Conspiracy for a Cause 47. Together Again: The King and His Clockmaker 48. Beehive 49. Where Were You? 50. What the Press Wasn't Saying 51. Paradise Is at the Lux 52. Silence and Poem 53. Rose Laurels
Dewey Decimal
843.914
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
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