Proust and Signs: The Complete Text: 17 (Theory Out of Bounds) - Softcover

Deleuze, Gilles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816632588 ISBN 13: 9780816632589

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2003

Synopsis

The essential work on Proust--now in paperback! In a remarkable instance of literary and philosophical interpretation, the incomparable Gilles Deleuze reads Marcel Proust's work as a narrative of an apprenticeship--more precisely, the apprenticeship of a man of letters. Considering the search to be one directed by an experience of signs, in which the protagonist learns to interpret and decode the kinds and types of symbols that surround him, Deleuze conducts us on a corollary search--one that leads to a new understanding of the signs that constitute A la recherche du temps perdu. In Richard Howard's graceful translation, augmented with an essay that Deleuze added to a later French edition, Proust and Signs is the complete English version of this work. Admired as an imaginative and innovative study of Proust and as one of Deleuze's more accessible works, Proust and Signs stands as the writer's most sustained attempt to understand and explain the work of art.

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About the Author

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes-St. Denis.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816632588
• ISBN 13: 9780816632589
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208