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.

• Preface: Adventure, by Philippe Sollers Preface: Harmonizing Our Foreignnesses, by Julia Kristeva 1. Complicity, Laughter, Hurt 2. Inner Experience Against the Current 3. Childhood and Youth of a French Writer 4. Love of the Other

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

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.

• Preface: Adventure, by Philippe Sollers Preface: Harmonizing Our Foreignnesses, by Julia Kristeva 1. Complicity, Laughter, Hurt 2. Inner Experience Against the Current 3. Childhood and Youth of a French Writer 4. Love of the Other

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

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.

• Preface: Adventure, by Philippe Sollers Preface: Harmonizing Our Foreignnesses, by Julia Kristeva 1. Complicity, Laughter, Hurt 2. Inner Experience Against the Current 3. Childhood and Youth of a French Writer 4. Love of the Other

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