Proust and Signs: The Complete Text

204 Pages·2000·0.487 MB·English

by  Gilles Deleuze

Proust and Signs
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Proust and Signs
THE COMPLETE TEXT
Gilles Deleuze
Translated by Richard Howard
The Athlone Press
London
First published in 2000 by
THE ATHLONE PRESS
1 Park Drive, London NW11 7SG
© The Regents of the University of Minnesota 2000
English language edition first published by George Braziller Inc, 1972
English translation © George Braziller Inc 1972
Originally published in French under the title Proust et Signes
© Presses Universitaires de France 1964
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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ISBN 0 485 12141 7 HB
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Contents
Translator’s Note vii
Preface to the Complete Text ix
Preface to the 1972 Edition xi
Works by Proust xiii
Part I. The Signs
1. The Types of Signs 3
2. Signs and Truth 15
3. Apprenticeship 26
4. Essence and the Signs of Art 39
5. Secondary Role of Memory 52
6. Series and Group 67
7. Pluralism in the System of Signs 84
Conclusion to Part I
The Image of Thought 94
Part II. The Literary Machine
8. Antilogos 105
9. Cells and Vessels 116
10. Levels of the Search 131
11. The Three Machines 145
12. Style 161
Conclusion to Part II
Presence and Function of Madness: The Spider 170
Notes 183
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Translator’s Note
In the course of this study, the title of Proust’s work will
be given as In Search of Lost Time,and Deleuze’s frequent
reference to “the Search” comprehends both Proust’s work
and the subject of it. Citations refer to the volumes and
pagesof the three-volume edition of A la Recherche du temps
perdu, published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, from
which all translations are by Richard Howard.
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Preface to the Complete Text
The first part of this book concerns the emission and the
interpretation of signs as presented in In Search of Lost
Time.The other part, added to the 1972 edition as a sin-
gle chapter, deals with a different problem: the production
and the multiplication of signs themselves, from the point
of view of the composition of the Search. This second part
is now divided into chapters, in a desire for greater clarity.
It is completed by a text first published in 1973 and sub-
sequently revised.
G.D.
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