The Old Man and the Wolves
A Novel
1st Edition
Published on 23. December 2025
148 pages
978-0-231-56342-0 (ISBN)
Description
Wolves have invaded the seaside resort town of Santa Varvara, a fictional postindustrial city in Eastern Europe, killing thousands of people, but no one will speak of it except a Latin professor known as the Old Man. Part detective story, part fable, this novel is set in a mythical landscape where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarianism have been erased. Narrated by a French journalist-Stephanie Delacour, Julia Kristeva's alter ego-The Old Man and the Wolves shows the great thinker at the height of her literary powers.
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Contributor: Julia Kristeva Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 "for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature."
Content
Part I. The Invasion
1. Whom Is One to Believe? Fear
2. Nothing-That's What He Thinks
3. Anamorphoses
Part II. Detective Story
4. Neither More nor Less
5. No Point in Shouting for Help
6. Disparate Effects
Part III. Capriccio
7. By the Throat
8. Men of Sorrow
9. Where's the Crime?
