Quote of the day
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Julia Kristeva
Born: June 24, 1941 (age 79)
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)