In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made
for Louis XV by the king’s engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant.
The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the
movements of the planets, and it will tell time—hours, minutes,
seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds—until the year 9999.
Passemant’s clock brings the nature of time into sharp focus in
Julia Kristeva’s intricate, poetic novel The Enchanted Clock.
Nivi Delisle, a psychoanalyst and magazine editor, nearly drowns
while swimming off the Île de Ré; the astrophysicist Theo
Passemant fishes her out of the water. They become lovers. While
Theo wonders if he is descended from the clockmaker Passemant,
Nivi’s son Stan, who suffers from occasional comas, develops a
passion for the remarkable clock at Versailles. Soon Nivi is
fixated on its maker. But then the clock is stolen, and when a
young writer for Nivi’s magazine mysteriously dies, the clock is
found near his body. The Enchanted Clock combines past and present,
jumping back and forth between points of view and across eras from
eighteenth-century Versailles to the present day. Its stylistically
inventive narrative voices bring both immediacy and depth to our
understanding of consciousness. Nivi’s life resembles her
creator’s in many respects, coloring Kristeva’s customary
erudition with autobiographical poignancy. Part detective mystery,
part historical fiction, The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically
and linguistically multifaceted novel, full of poetic ruminations
on memory, love, and the transcendence of linear time. It is one of
the most illuminating works of one of France’s great writers and
thinkers.
General
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2019 |
| Authors: |
Julia Kristeva
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| Translators: |
Armine Kotin Mortimer
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-18047-4 |
| Subtitles: |
French
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| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-231-18047-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780231180474 |
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