Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A fascinating, provocative unveiling of a Colette that critics/translators have ignored, highlighting the bisexuality and unconscious incestuous desires at the heart of some of her most admired novels. In dialogue with Julia Kristevas psychoanalytic vision, Bové illuminates brilliantly the complexities of the incest taboo at the heart of Colettes imagination, with striking implications for our understanding of modernism as well as for debates today about power and sexuality. Alice Jardine, Research Professor, Harvard University, USA. Through her keen reading of a selection of Colettes works in the light of the incest taboo, Bové draws attention to topics and characters long misunderstood. Informed by Kristevas thought, this original contribution skillfully exposes Colettes complex version of feminism. This study is truly an inspiration and an excellent read. Christine Raguet, Professional literary translator, Professor Emerita Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France. Through an engagement with Colette and Kristeva, Bové presents new ways to think about gender fluidity. This book will be of interest to feminist theorists trying to think beyond binary notions of gender or sexual difference that anchor classical psychoanalysis. To stay up to date, psychoanalysis needs a new theory of gender fluidity. Bovés book is the first step in this new and welcome direction. Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University, USA. In this remarkable study, Carol Mastrangelo Bové uses the figure of the incestuous relation to explore Colettes work. Combining original readings of novels with the psychoanalytic framework of Julia Kristeva, the book shows, with great care and insight, the depth and complexity of Colettes negotiations of the dynamics of gender, power, and desire. Daniel Morgan, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, USA. Bové has written a thorough, considered, and precise analysis [ ...] It is, I think, good that Colette and the Incest Taboo exists. It is a work of a type that deserves respect. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette