Table of Contents

Translator's Note Preface to the Complete Text Preface to the 1972 Edition Works by Proust Part I: The Signs 1. The Types of Signs 2. Signs and Truth 3. Apprenticeship 4. Essence and the Signs of Art 5. Secondary Role of Memory 6. Series and Group 7. Pluralism in the System of Signs Conclusion to Part I: The Image of Thought Part II: The Literary Machine 8. Antilogos 9. Cells and Vessels 10. Levels of the Search 11. The Three Machines 12. Style Conclusion to Part II: Presence and Function of Madness: The Spider Notes

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This book explores the work of art through Proust's masterpiece, A La Recherche du Temps Purdu.

About the Author

Gilles Deleuze was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. Richard Howard teaches in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, USA. He has also translated works by Barthes, Foucault and Todorov.