Time and Sense

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

• Translator’s NoteList of AbbreviationsPart I. The Characters Regained1. Superimpositions2. A Penchant for Classicism: Its Origins and Manifestations3. Questions of IdentityPart II. When Saying Is Perceiving4. The Experience of Time Embodied5. A Tribute to the Metaphor6. Is Sensation a Form of Language?7. Proust the PhilosopherPart III. The Imaginary; or Geometry in Time8. The Proustian Sentence9. Losing Impatience10. Time for a Long TimeAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

What makes Time and Sense an important and enlivening book . . . is that Kristeva is a critic of great psychoanalytic insight who is also finely sensitive to the complex rhetorical and syntactical elaboration of Proust's world.