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Marcel Proust’s mythically enormous novel, À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–1927), asks many demands of its reader. Its vast, intoxicating sentences, its innumerable characters, affects, and narrators, as well as its sheer length, continue to test and fascinate critics and scholars. But it precisely in this textual and imaginative expanse that Proust’s enterprise turns these demands into living concerns. This book argues that Proust reimagines the limits of phenomenal experience through deferral, focusing on his troubling of textual and conceptual presence as the always-unfinished exchange between writing and life. In its rethinking of representational and temporal commonplaces, it shows how Proust’s novel anticipates the interventions of two influential poststructuralist thinkers: Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. Whereas Derrida and Deleuze are often held to occupy irreconcilable philosophical positions, both philosophers are equally relevant to an understanding of Proust’s philosophical significance, which fundamentally rests on his deferral of textual presence. Drawing on a range of conceptual tools from these two philosophical oeuvres, including many that are often overlo

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Author

James Dutton

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474490535

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction