Proust and Signs: The Complete Text
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| Author | William H. Gass |
| ISBN | 0307595846 |
A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.
It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of...
| Author | Eric Karpeles |
| ISBN | 0500238545 |
A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature. Not only are there frequent references to specific works of art, but certain characters are also evoked by comparison to particular paintings. Bloch’s appearance as a boy is likened to...
| Author | William C. Carter |
| ISBN | 0300081456 |
This book is a magisterial account of the life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. Based on a host of recently available letters, memoirs, and manuscripts, it sheds new light on Proust's character, his development as an artist, and his masterpiece...
| Author | Patrick Alexander |
| ISBN | 0307472329 |
An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired--and entertaining--novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust.
At seven volumes, three thousand...
| Author | Roger Shattuck |
| ISBN | 0393321800 |
For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently...
| Author | Anka Muhlstein |
| ISBN | 1590515668 |
Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a fictional personage without a book in hand. Two hundred of his creatures inhabit his fictional world, and sixty writers hover over them. These writers--among them various classical authors of the seventeenth...
| Author | Jean-Yves Tadié |
| ISBN | 0141002034 |
Marcel Proust was arguably the greatest writer of the twentieth century. This fascinating, definitive biography by the premier world authority on Proust redefines the way we look at both the artist and the man. A bestseller in France, where it was originally published to great critical acclaim, Jean-Yves...
| Author | Lorenza Foschini |
| ISBN | 0061965677 |
Jacques Guérin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in search of lost, forgotten treasures. The ultimate...
Discovering Proust is like wandering through a totally unfamiliar land and finding it peopled with kindred spirits and sister souls and fellow countrymen . . . They speak our language, our dialect, share our blind-spots and are awkward in exactly the same way we are, just as their manner of lacing every...
| Author | Samuel Beckett |
| ISBN | 0714500348 |
Samuel Beckett's celebrated early study of Marcel proust, whose theories of time were to play a large part in his own work, was written in 1931. It is a brilliant work of critical insight that also tells us much about its author's own thinking and preoccupations. In its own right it is a masterpiece of literary...
Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
| Author | Paul De Man |
| ISBN | 0300028458 |
This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered by these authors, and they return to the...
| Author | Alain Badiou |
| ISBN | 0816631409 |
The works of Gilles Deleuze -- on cinema, literature, painting, and philosophy -- have made him one of the most widely read thinkers of his generation. This compact critical volume is not only a powerful reappraisal of Deleuze's thought, but also the first major work by Alain Badiou available in English....
| Author | Maurice Blanchot |
| ISBN | 0816619700 |
In this landmark volume, Blanchot sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers whose contributions have marked turning points in the history of Western thought and have influenced virtually all the themes that inflect the contemporary literary and philosophical debate today.
“Blanchot...
| Author | Félix Guattari |
| ISBN | 1570270198 |
Everything is rational in capitalism, except capital or capitalism itself. The stock market is certainly rational; one can understand it, study it, capitalists know how to use it, and yet it is completely delirious, it is mad. That's why we say: the rational always is the rationality of an irrational....
| Author | Brian Massumi |
| ISBN | 0262631431 |
I was under the impression that this was a quite inscrutable, singular work of little benefit to understanding the complexities of Capitalism & Schizophrenia - not at all. The line between citation/explanation of the subject texts and original extrapolation/explanation (or the Deleuze-Guattari/Massumi...
The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism
| Author | Levi Bryant |
| ISBN | 9780980668 |
Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze, which has in turn evolved into a new situation still difficult to define. However, one common thread running through the new brand of continental positions...
| Author | Slavoj Žižek |
| ISBN | 0415969212 |
In this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself. Zizek turns some Deleuzian concepts...
| Author | Brian McHale |
| ISBN | 0415045134 |
Like it or not, the term ‘postmodernism’ seems to have lodged itself in our critical and theoretical discourses. We have a postmodern architecture, a postmodern dance, perhaps even a postmodern philosophy and a postmodern condition. But do we have a postmodern fiction?
In this trenchant...
| Author | Jean-François Lyotard |
| ISBN | 0826477003 |
Libidinal Economy was characterized by its repentant author as an "evil" book. Why? Like Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, Libidinal Economy can be seen partially as a response to the question: why do the masses desire their own oppression? Lyotard's response is as unequivocal as it is infamous:...
| Author | Georges Bataille |
| ISBN | 0942299213 |
The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. In the second and third volumes, The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty, Bataille explores...
| Author | Marcel Proust |
| ISBN | 1933633417 |
This is the first-ever translation into English of this startling tour-de-force by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.
The Lemoine Affair was inspired by the real-life French scandal involving Henri Lemoine, who claimed he could manufacture diamonds from coal and convinced...
