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Proust and Signs

By Gilles Deleuze
Series: Continuum Impacts
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In Proust and Signs, Gilles Deleuze offers a profound philosophical exploration of Marcel Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. Deleuze interprets the novel as the journey of a man of letters, delving into the intricate network of signs that the text presents. This work is not only an analysis of Proust’s narrative but also a broader contemplation on the nature of art itself.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in philosophy, literary theory, and modernist literature, particularly those keen to deepen their understanding of Proust and poststructuralist thought.

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Explores the work of art through Proust's masterpiece, "A La Recherche du Temps Purdu". The author approaches the narrative of Proust's masterpiece, as the apprenticeship of a man of letters. His concern is to come to a deeper understanding of the book and of art itself by tracing the network of signs laid in the text.

This book explores the work of art through Proust's masterpiece, A La Recherche du Temps Purdu.

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Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

In Proust and Signs, Deleuze explores the work of art. He approaches the narrative of Proust's masterpiece, A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, as the apprenticeship of a man of letters. His concern is to come to a deeper understanding of the book and of art itself by tracing the network of signs laid in the text.

Admired at its original appearance as an imaginative and innovative study of Proust and as one of Deleuze's most accessible works, this book stands as the writer's most sustained attempt to understand and explain the work of art.

Series: Continuum Impacts

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780826442789

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 November 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Contributors:

  • Translated by Richard Howard
  • Translated by Richard Howard

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 156g

Pages: 136

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About the Author

Gilles Deleuze was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. Richard Howard teaches in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, USA. He has also translated works by Barthes, Foucault and Todorov.

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