Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations

by Thomas Baldwin

Book Overview

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 la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802077383
• ISBN13: 9781802077384
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"