Proust between Deleuze

Jan 16, 2024 | academic.oup.com | James Dutton |Ching Selao |Sara Buekens |Proust between Deleuze

A solid new contribution to the field of literary animal studies, this collection of essays strengthens the claim of a distinctiveness in French-language approaches to literature’s creatures. The editors’ introduction, indebted to the work of Anne Simon and her notion of ‘un savoir proprement littéraire sur [l]es bêtes’ (quoted, p.

Jan 16, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Proust between Deleuze |James Dutton |Ching Selao

This engaging book, which might be playfully retitled ‘Proust between Two Philosophers’, brings critical attention back to the philosophical aspect of À la recherche du temps perdu, part of a larger trend in Proust studies that has, at least partially, moved us away from once-dominant biographical, historical, and sociological approaches.