(H/B) THE OLD MAN AND THE WOLVES

Παρουσίαση

Internationally renowned psychoanalyst and writer Julia Kristeva presents a critical allegory for our time. In an imaginative departure from both her theoretical work and her recent novel, Kristeva takes us to a mythical, postindustrial landscape in which the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarism, and good and evil are erased.
Santa Varvara is an Eastern European seaside resort frequented by German and Russian tourists and inhabited by professors, students, and doctors who take quiet stands on religious and political freedom.
When mysterious wolves from the steppes invade Santa Varvara and people begin to disappear, this town of passive decadence transmogrifies into a dreamscape in which "men [become] wolves toward men." Only an old man, a professor of Latin, believes in the ominous reality and magnitude of the descending wolves, yet his fears are dismissed.
The power of this jarring narrative is expressed in the fierce conflict between the learned old man's perception of the wolves and the community's refusal to consider them responsible for the deaths of several people, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Part One - THE INVASION
Whom Is One to Believe? Fear
Nothing - That's What He Thinks
Anamorphoses
Part Two - DETECTIVE STORY
Neither More nor Less
No Point in Shouting for Help
Disparate Effects
Part Three - CAPRICCIO
By the Throat
Men of Sorrow
Where's the Crime?