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Julia Kristeva's dazzling fictional debut is an intellectual adventure, full of vitality, sensuousness, and sustained lyricism. Reminiscent of The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir's 1954 masterpiece, The Samurai brilliantly reconstructs a pivotal era of postwar French history—Paris in the late 1960s—and at the same time records the political disillusionment and ferment of a generation. In a brisk narrative spanning three continents, the novel follows an array of passionate and promiscuous intellectual warriors—the "samurai" for whom "writing is the only lasting act of pleasure and war combined."
Readers will recognize finely sketched and often searing portraits of figures such as Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, Althusser, and many others. With an authorial voice that modulates between the erotic and the meditative, the ironic and the rancorous, The Samurai moves from Paris to Mao's China—where revolutionary idealism collides with cold pragmatism—to New York and back to Paris. Over a twenty-five year period, the characters experience countless battles involving love, depression, maternity, and disease, while the various themes of the text—language, prison, madness, emotional ruptures—are brought to fruition with astounding insight.
This is a novel whose enormous energy derives from the juxtaposition of vital ideas set on a broad historical canvas. Fluid and captivating, The Samurai brilliantly illuminates both the constantly shifting terrain of human relationships and the manifold psychological entanglements of Left Bank intellectuals.
Contents
Part I. Atlantic
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Part II. Saint-André-des-Arts
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Part III. Chinese
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Part IV. Algonquin
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Part V. Luxembourg
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
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