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The Enchanted Clock: A Novel By Julia Kristeva (Hardback, 2017)
In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock made for Louis XV by the king's engineer Claude-Simeon Passemant The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets and it will tell time-hours minutes seconds and even sixtieths of seconds-until the year 9999 Passemant's clock brings the nature of time into sharp focus in Julia Kristeva's intricate poetic novel The Enchanted Clock Nivi Delisle a psychoanalyst and magazine editor nearly drowns while swimming off the Ile de Re; the astrophysicist Theo Passemant fishes her out of the water They become lovers While Theo wonders if he is descended from the clockmaker Passemant Nivi's son Stan who suffers from occasional comas develops a passion for the remarkable clock at Versailles Soon Nivi is
fixated on its maker But then the clock is stolen and when a young writer for Nivi's magazine mysteriously dies the clock is found near his body The Enchanted Clock combines past and present jumping back and forth between points of view and across eras from eighteenth-century Versailles to the present day Its stylistically inventive narrative voices bring both immediacy and depth to our understanding of consciousness Nivi's life resembles her creator's in many respects coloring Kristeva's customary erudition with autobiographical poignancy Part detective mystery part historical fiction The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted novel full of poetic ruminations on memory love and the transcendence of linear time It is one of the most illuminating works of one
of France's great writers and thinkers
fixated on its maker But then the clock is stolen and when a young writer for Nivi's magazine mysteriously dies the clock is found near his body The Enchanted Clock combines past and present jumping back and forth between points of view and across eras from eighteenth-century Versailles to the present day Its stylistically inventive narrative voices bring both immediacy and depth to our understanding of consciousness Nivi's life resembles her creator's in many respects coloring Kristeva's customary erudition with autobiographical poignancy Part detective mystery part historical fiction The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted novel full of poetic ruminations on memory love and the transcendence of linear time It is one of the most illuminating works of one
of France's great writers and thinkers
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