Description
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.
About the Author
Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Universite de Paris VII. Her most recent Columbia University Press book is Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila (2014). Philippe Sollers is a biographer, editor, critic, and prolific novelist. He is a cofounder of the journal Tel Quel and the founder of L'Infini.
Reviews
Kristeva's and Sollers' shared love of literature and interpretation, their appreciation of each others' work is evident throughout this volume. These play a very real part in their fine art of marriage. As they explore its lineaments, they also share their deep knowledge of psychoanalysis and literature with us. -- Lisa Appignanesi, author of All About Love and Trials of Passion [Kristeva & Sollers's] performance, so smart, so practiced, is genuinely entertaining, enacted, as it is, by two people who are openly energized by showing off to and for one another. Their mutual enjoyment, as they go through their paces, is palpable. Clearly, intellectual busking is the glue that binds Kristeva and Sollers to one another. -- Vivian Gornick New Republic A fascinating book. -- Shahidha Bari Times Higher Education
Book Information
ISBN 9780231180108
Author Julia Kristeva
Format Hardback
Page Count 128
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press