Proust and Signs

1964 book by Gilles Deleuze

Proust and Signs

Cover of the first edition

Author| Gilles Deleuze
Original title| Marcel Proust et les signes
Translator| Richard Howard
Language| French
Subject| Marcel Proust
Published|

* 1964 (Presses Universitaires de France, in French)
* 1972 (George Braziller, in English)

Publication place| France
Media type| Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages| 188 (University of Minnesota Press edition, 2000)
ISBN| 978-0816632589

Proust and Signs (French: Marcel Proust et les signes) is a book by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, in which the author explores the system of signs within the work of the celebrated French novelist Marcel Proust. It was first published in 1964; its second edition (1972) added an eighth concluding chapter ("L'Image de la pensée" or "The Image of Thought"), and its third edition (1976) appended an entire second part ("La machine littéraire" or "The Literary Machine"). The book was translated into English by Richard Howard.

Deleuze looks at signs left by persons and events in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, illustrating how memory interprets the signs creatively but inaccurately. The jealous lover, for example, cannot accurately decipher the deceptions of his beloved. Deleuze demonstrates how Proust's book, because of the multiplication of signs, becomes a literary machine, or rather three literary machines: of partial objects or impulses, of resources, and of forced moments. Deleuze understands Proust (or the narrator) as the "universal schizophrenic" whose signs weave a spider web by sending out threads to the paranoiac Charlus and the erotomaniac Albertine, all "marionettes of his own delirium" or "profiles of his own madness." These thematic links between signs, events and love are taken up elsewhere in Deleuze's work, most notably in his Capitalism and Schizophrenia collaborations with Félix Guattari.[1]

## References

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1. ^ Laurie, Timothy; Stark, Hannah (2017), "Love's Lessons: Intimacy, Pedagogy and Political Community", Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 22 (4): 69–79

## Further reading

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* Deleuze, Gilles (2000) Proust and Signs: The Complete Text. Minnesota: University Of Minnesota Press

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Gilles Deleuze – Félix Guattari

Concepts and theories|

* Affect
* Arborescent
* Assemblage
* Body without organs
* Desiring-production
* Deterritorialization
* Difference
* Erewhon
* Event
* Haecceity
* Immanent evaluation
* Individuation
* Line of flight
* Minority
* Molar configuration
* Multiplicity
* Plane of immanence
* Reterritorialization
* Rhizome
* Schizoanalysis
* Societies of control
* Socius
* Subjectification
* Transcendental empiricism
* Univocity of being
* Virtual

Works by Deleuze and Guattari|

* Capitalism and Schizophrenia
* Anti-Oedipus
* A Thousand Plateaus
* Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
* Rhizome
* Nomadology: The War Machine
* What Is Philosophy?

Works by Deleuze|

* Empiricism and Subjectivity
* Nietzsche and Philosophy
* Kant's Critical Philosophy
* Proust and Signs
* Nietzsche
* Bergsonism
* Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty
* Difference and Repetition
* Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza
* The Logic of Sense
* Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
* The Intellectuals and Power: A Discussion Between Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault
* Dialogues
* Superpositions
* Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
* Cinema 1: The Movement Image
* Cinema 2: The Time-Image
* Foucault
* The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
* Périclès et Verdi: La philosophie de Francois Châtelet
* Negotiations
* Essays Critical and Clinical
* Bartleby, la formula della creazione
* Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
* Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953-1974
* Two Regimes of Madness

Works by Guattari|

* Psychanalyse et transversalité
* Molecular Revolution
* Desire and Revolution
* L'inconscient machinique. Essais de Schizoanalyse
* L’intervention institutionnelle
* Les années d'hiver
* Pratique de l'institutionnel et politique
* Communists Like Us
* Molecular Revolution in Brazil
* The Three Ecologies
* Cartographies schizoanalytiques
* Chaosmose
* Chaosophy
* Soft Subversions
* The Guattari Reader
* The Anti-Oedipus Papers
* Chaos and Complexity

Related topics|

* L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze
* La Borde Clinic
* Deleuze and Guattari
* A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity

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