The Enchanted Clock

Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including The Severed Head: Capital Visions, This Incredible Need to Believe, Hatred and Forgiveness, and Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila, all published by Columbia. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize.Mortimer Armine Kotin :

Armine Kotin Mortimer is Professor Emerita and Research Professor in the Department of French and Italian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of For Love or for Money: Balzac's Rhetorical Realism (The Ohio State University Press, 2011) and has translated a number of books from French, including Philippe Sollers, Casanova the Irresistible, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016) and our own translation of Kristeva's The Enchanted Clock (Columbia University Press, 2017)Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels. Her Columbia University Press books include Murder in Byzantium: A Novel (2005); Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila (2014); and, with Philippe Sollers, Marriage as a Fine Art (2016).

Armine Kotin Mortimer is professor emerita of French literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her contributions to French culture were recognized with the Palmes académiques distinction in 2009. She is the translator of two books by Philippe Sollers.

Brian Reilly, Fordham University:
This translation of Julia Kristeva’s The Enchanted Clock is expertly done. It is an easy and pleasant read that captures the content, tone, and rhythm of the original. A fascinating novel by one of France’s most important intellectuals rendered into English by one of our best translators.

Carol Bové, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Pittsburgh and Professor Emerita of French, Westminster College:
An original, creative narrative on the topic of time, cognizant of a complex intellectual world while also telling a beautiful and compelling story.

Verena Conley, Harvard University:
Julia Kristeva’s L’horloge enchantée is a veritable tour de force, a brilliant piece of writing that infuses the novelistic genre with theatrical and essayistic undertones. Kristeva deftly weaves together multiple strands of a narrative that links a presently degraded state of France, Europe, and the world, in the grip of violence, fanaticism, rigid identity politics, anti-intellectualism, a general loss of quality of life, to the eve of revolution at the end of the eighteenth century.