Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Julia Kristeva
Born: June 24, 1941 (age 84)
Bio: Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a professor at the University Paris Diderot.
Known for:
- Powers of Horror (1982)
- Revolution in Poetic Language (1974)
- The Kristeva reader (1986)
- Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1989)