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Proust and Signs

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Proust and Signs presents Gilles Deleuze's insightful interpretation of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu as a narrative of a man's apprenticeship in the art of reading and understanding signs. Deleuze explores the protagonist's journey of deciphering the myriad symbols around him, offering a profound new perspective on Proust's masterpiece.
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Ideal for readers interested in literary theory, philosophy, and Proust enthusiasts seeking a deeper understanding of his work through a philosophical lens.

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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.

Series: Theory Out of Bounds

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780816632589

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 October 2003

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Minnesota Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 121.0mm

Height: 191.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 208

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