Gilles Deleuze's writing is permeated with references to literature. Do these serve simply as diversions within his philosophical investigations? On the contrary: for Deleuze, philosophers and literary writers are engaged in an allied writing enterprise, the former concerned with creating concepts, and the latter with creating characters. Deleuze repeatedly asserted that he made no claim to be a literary critic, and yet his writing contains a series of brilliantly original interactions with literary texts. This book provides sustained encounters with a small number of writers who fascinated Deleuze - T E Lawrence, Melville, D H Lawrence, Tournier, Beckett - as well as noting his early interest in the writing of Helene Cixous. Putting to work his belief that 'every work is a journey', the study uses a transversal theme of travel and locomotion to demonstrate the vitality and productivity of Deleuzian thought when applied to literary texts.
- ISBN10 0230800793
- ISBN13 9780230800793
- Publish Date 28 November 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format eBook
- Pages 200
- Language English