Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust

This book is an encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett.

This book is an encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett.

MARY BRYDEN is Professor of French Studies at the University of Reading. She is a recent past President of the Samuel Beckett Society, and a former Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation. Her extensive publications on Samuel Beckett and Gilles Deleuze include Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God, Deleuze and Religion (ed.), and Gilles Deleuze: Travels in Literature.

MARGARET TOPPING is Senior Lecturer in French at the School of European Studies at Cardiff University. Her major publications include Prousts Gods and Supernatural Proust, as well as the edited collection Eastern Voyages, Western Visions: French Writing and Painting of the Orient.