Gilles Deleuze
Proust et les signes.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1971. Collection "A la pensée." Third edition. 195 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7", shows shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"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 et les signes," 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."