Proust i znakovi
Deleuze's philosophical reading of Proust's masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time." Deleuze interprets the novel as a system of signs and teaches how art produces higher cognition through the signs of love, memory, and art.
Proust and Signs (1964, expanded edition 1970) is Deleuze's first significant book devoted to literature and one of the most influential philosophical readings of Marcel Proust in the 20th century.
Deleuze approaches Proust's work as a semiotician: the novel is not a story about memory or time in the classical sense, but a machine for the production and interpretation of signs. He distinguishes several types of signs – signs of the world (high society), signs of love (jealousy as the greatest driver of interpretation), signs of memory (involuntary memories) and finally signs of art, which are the only adequate because they lead us to being and truth.
The book is divided into two parts: the first deals with the "aprentisage" (learning) of signs, and the second develops Proust's philosophy of time and art. Here, Deleuze clearly formulates for the first time his idea that art is the only true path to truth, because philosophy and science cannot achieve this in the same way.
The work is written in a crystal clear style (much more accessible than Deleuze's later texts) and represents a transition from Deleuze's early studies to the original philosophy. Many believe that the key themes of the later Deleuze can already be seen here: difference, repetition, the virtual, the event and anti-representational thought.
One copy is available
