Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de
Paris VII. She has hosted a French television series and is the author of many critically acclaimed books published
by Columbia University Press in translation, including Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature
and the novel, Possessions.
Review
"Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette,
Foucault, Greimas and others. . . . [Powers of Horror] is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary
French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on paraphilosophical
modes of discourse."
--Paul de Man
Submitted by Publisher, March, 2001
Summary
"Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette,
Foucault, Greimas and others. . . . [Powers of Horror] is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary
French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on paraphilosophical
modes of discourse."� Paul de Man,
