Julia Kristeva and the Dostoevsky case

By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

Julia Kristeva, born in Bulgaria, has worked and lived in France since 1966. She is a writer, psychoanalyst, professor. Honored and rewarded around the world, his work is made up of around thirty titles, essays and novels. In her new book "Dostoyevsky" (The authors of my life, Buchet-Chastel), she pays tribute to the Russian giant.

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"Eyes riveted on The Idiot, my father strictly advised against reading it:" Destructive, demonic and sticky, too much is too much, you will not like at all, give up! "He dreamed of me see leaving "the intestine of hell", thus designating our native Bulgaria. To achieve this desperate project, I had nothing better to do than develop my innate taste for clarity and freedom, in French, needless to say, since he had made me discover the language of La Fontaine and of Voltaire. Obviously, as usual, I disobeyed the paternal instructions and I plunged into Dostoevsky. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed. " (Buchet-Chastel editions)

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