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The Samurai: A Novel

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Julia Kristeva&#8217s dazzling fictional debut is an intellectual adventure, full of vitality, sensuousness, and sustained lyricism. Reminiscent of The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir&#8217s 1954 masterpiece, The Samurai brilliantly reconstructs a pivotal era of postwar French history&#8212Paris in the late 1960s&#8212and at the same time records the political disillusionment and ferment of a generation. In a brisk narrative spanning three continents, the novel follows an array of passionate and promiscuous intellectual warriors&#8212the &#8220samurai&#8221 for whom &#8220writing is the only lasting act of pleasure and war combined.&#8221Readers will recognize finely sketched and often searing

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