KRISTEVA, Julia

KRISTEVA, Julia. Also writes as Julia Joyaux. Bulgarian, b. 1941. Genres: Novels, Language/Linguistics, Literary criticism and history. Career: Writer, educator, linguist, psychoanalyst, and literary theorist. Worked as a journalist in Bulgaria; Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, research assistant to Claude Levi-Strauss, 1967-73; University of Paris VII-Denis Diderot, instructor, 1972, professor of linguistics, 1973-; private psychoanalytic practice, Paris, 1978-. Visiting professor, Columbia University, 1974, University of Toronto, 1992. Publications: NONFICTION: Semeiotike, Recherce pour une semanalyse, 1969, abridged and trans. as Desire in Language, 1980; (as Julia Joyaux) Le Langage, cet inconnu,, 1969, as Julia Kristeva, 1981, trans. as Language: The Unknown, 1989; Le Texte du roman, 1970; Lapu Revolution du langage poetique, 1974, abridged trans. as Revolution in Poetic Language, 1984; Des Chinoises, 1974, trans. as About Chinese Women, 1977; (with others) La Traversee des signes, 1975; Polylogue, 1977, trans. in Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, 1980; (with J.M. Ribettes) Folle Verite, verite et vraisemblance du texte psychotique, 1980; Pouvoirs de l'horreur, 1980, trans. as Powers of Horror, 1982; Histoires d'amour, 1983, trans. as Tales of Love, 1987; Au commencement etait l'amour, 1985, trans. as In the Beginning Was Love, 1987; A Kristeva Reader, 1986; Soleil noir, 1987, trans. as Black Sun, 1989; Etrangers a nous-memes, 1988, trans. as Strangers to Ourselves, 1991; Lettre ouverte a Harlem Desir, 1990, trans. as Nations without Nationalism, 1993; Les Nouvelles Maladies de l'ame, 1993, trans. as New Maladies of the Soul, 1995; Le Temps sensible, Proust et l'Experience litteraire, 1994, trans. as Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature, 1996; Sens et non-sens de la revolte, 1996; La Revolte intime, 1997; Contre la depression nationale: Conversation avec Philippe Petit, 1997; L'avenir d'une revolte, 1998; Visions capitales, 1998; (with C. Clement) Le Feminin et le Sacre, 1998; Le Genie feminin, vol. 1: Hannah Arendt, 1999, vol. 2: Melanie Klein, 2000, vol. 3: Colette, 2002. NOVELS: Les Samourais, 1990, trans. as The Samurai, 1992; Le Vieil Homme et les loups, 1991, trans. as The Old Man and the Wolves, 1994; Possessions, 1996. EDITOR: (with T. Sebeok) Approaches to Semiotics, vol. 1, 1969; (with J.R. Debove and D.J. Umiker) Essays in Semiotics, 1971; Epistemologie de la linguistique. Hommage a Emile Benveniste, 1971; (with J.-C. Milner and N. Ruwet) Langue, discours, societe: pour Emile Benveniste, 1975. Address: Universite de Paris VII-Denis Diderot, UFR de Sciences des Textes et Documents 34-44 2e etage, 2 place Jussieu, 75006 Paris, France.