by Julia Kristeva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213596785
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«Possessions» is the crime novel by Julia Kristeva, published by Fayard in paperback (278 pages, in French).
The translator Gloria Harrison is found murdered and decapitated after a dinner, and her friend Stephanie Delacour, a journalist, becomes involved in the investigation. Kristeva uses the crime novel framework to explore the psychology of the characters; motherhood, depression and semiotics weigh more than the crime itself.
Novel originally published in 1996; the French edition is presented in paperback and retains the subtitle 'roman' on the cover.
Recommended for readers who prefer an intellectual and psychological mystery, with more reflection than action.
Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She has taught at Columbia University, and is now a professor emerita at Université Paris Cité. The author of more than 30 books, including Powers of Horror, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Proust and the Sense of Time, and the trilogy Female Genius, she has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation.
