Julia Kristeva biography

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Julia Kristeva was born June 24, 1941 in Sliven, Bulgaria. In Paris she worked with the structuralist and Marxist critic Lucien Goldmann, the social and literary critic Roland Barthes, and the structuralist anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. She soon became a member of the group of intellectuals associated with the journal Tel Quel, and her articles appeared in scholarly journals.