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Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection. Paris, Seuil, 1980. 247 p. (Coll. «Tel quel»).

• Contents
  • "Approches de l'abjection": 7-39 (See journal articles 1982)
    
  • "De quoi avoir peur": 41-67
  • "De la saleté à la souillure": 69-105
  • "Sémiotique de l'abomination biblique": 107-31
    
  • Translated (abridged) in French Feminists on Religion
    
  • "... Qui tollis peccata mundi": 133-54
  • "Céline, ni comédien ni martyr": 155-62
  • "Douleur/horreur": 163-82
  • "Ces Femelles qui nous gâchent l'infini": 183-201
  • "Juivre ou mourir": 203-19
  • "Au commencement et sans fin ...": 221-42
  • "Pouvoirs de l'horreur": 243-48
  
  
• Translated into :
• Italian as Poteri dell'orrore. Saggio sull'abiezione. Rome, Spirali, 1981. 224 p.

• English by Léon Roudiez as Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York, Columbia University Press, 1982. 219 .
• "Something to be scared of": 32-55
• "From filth to defilement": 56-89
• "Semiotics of Biblical abomination": 90-112
• Reprinted (abridged) in French Feminists on Religion. A Reader. Ed. by  Morny Joy, Kathleen O'Grady, Judith L. Poxon. New York, London, Routledge, 2000
• "... Qui tollis peccata mundi": 113-32
• "Céline: neither actor nor martyr": 133-9
• "Suffering and horror": 140-56
• "Females who can wreck the infinite": 157-73
• "Ours to jew or die": 174-87
• Reprinted as "Ours to jew or die : Céline and the categories of Anti-Semitism", in Anatomy of Racism. Edited by David Theo Goldberg. Minneapolis, Oxford, University of Minnesota Press, 1990, pp. 171-82.
• "In the beginning and without end": 188-206
• "Powers of horror": 207-10.

• "Approches de l'abjection" translated into English by John Lechte as "Approaching abjection," The Oxford Literary Review (1982) 5 (1-2): 125-49.
• Reprinted (abridged) in French Feminists on Religion. A Reader. Ed. by  Morny Joy, Kathleen O'Grady, Judith L. Poxon. New York, London, Routledge, 2000.
  

• Japanese by Masao Edagawa as 恐怖の権力 : <アブジェクシオン>試論 Tokyo, Hosei Daigaku Shuppankyoku, 1984. 410 p.

• Croatian by Divina Marion as Moći užasa : ogled o zazornosti. Zagreb, Naprijed, 1989. 260 p. 

•  Spanish by Viviana Ackerman, Nicolás Rosa, as Poderes de la perversión: ensayo sobre Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Buenos Aires, Catálogos, 1988. Also by Nicolás Rosa, Mexico, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1989. 281 p.

• German by Zenia Rajewski as Machte des Grauens. Ein Versuch über den Abscheu. Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1991. 317 p.

• Swedish by Agneta Rehal and Anna Forssberg as Fasans makt : en essä om abjektionen. Göteborg, Daidalos, 1991. 250 p.
  

• Chinese by Zhuliya Kelisidiwa Zhu, Zhang Xinmu as 恐怖的权力 : 论卑贱  Beijing Shi, Sheng huo, du shu, xin zhi san lian shu dian, 2001. 301 p.

• Korean by So Min-won as 공포 의 권력  Seoul, Dongun Moon, 2001. 359 p.
  

• Chinese by Renyu Peng as  恐 怖的 力量 Taibei Xian Xindian Shi, Gui guan tu shu gu fen you xian gong si, 2003. 273 p.
  

• Russian as Силы ужаса: эссе об отвращении. St. Petersburg, Aletheia, 2003.  269 p.
  

• Turkish by Nilgün Tutal as Korkunun güçleri : Igrençlik üzerine deneme. Istanbul, Ayrinti Yayinlari, 2004. 302 p.

• Hebrew by No`am Barukh as כוחות האימה : מסה על הבזות Tel Aviv, Resling, 2005. 181 p.
  

• Estonian by Heete Sahkai as Jälestuse jõud: Essee abjektsioonist. Tallinn, Tänapäev,  2006.

• Polish by Maciej Falski as Potęga obrsydzenia esej o wstrecie. Kraków, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2007. 196 p.

 

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