Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures)

Baldwin, Thomas

Liverpool University Press（2022/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781802077384
• DDC分類 843.912

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Shortlisted for the 2020 R. Gapper book prize

This book confronts the singularity of the relationship between two exemplary writers of the last century in order to challenge and to reinvigorate our notions of what art and criticism - literary or otherwise - can do. While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, the book argues that Barthes's writing on Proust's work between the early 1950s and 1980 (including a substantial set of unpublished notes for a series of seminars delivered at the University of Rabat in 1969-1970) proposes not only a critical culture of Proust that is productively inconsistent, but also, more generally, a fresh understanding of criticism as a creative activity that embraces insecurity and variation as it refuses to remain fixed upon reassuringly stable themes, meanings and interpretations.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
Introduction
1. Objects
2. Eros, Rhythm
3. Music, Discourse
4. Neutral, Nuance
Afterword: Insect Life
Bibliography
Index