Marriage as a Branch of Fine Arts

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

Intellectual marriage, freedom and beyond from a couple who can connect every word they say to art, literature and philosophy...

Marriage is often a conflict in which one party is the victim. People marry for certain reasons or under deceptive dreams; Time wears out this fragile contract by the book, marriage breaks down, people remarry or become stuck in mutual disappointments.

There is no such thing here: Both parties, equally, maintain their own creative character by constantly influencing each other positively. So, here is a new art of love that the order-loving but disintegrating society has difficulty accepting. Marriage as a social criticism against all kinds of reactionism and a poetic tribute to freedom? Try.

- Philippe Sollers

What were the chances of Julia (born in 1941, Sliven, Bulgaria) and Philippe (born in 1936, Bordeaux, France), who underlines incredible oddities in his novels, meeting in Paris in 1966? Their chances of loving each other just before, during and after May '68? What about their chances of staying married since 1967? Very few, if the probabilities were calculated, it would be necessary to add an astronomical series of numbers after 0...

-Julia Kristeva-

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