Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art

Leo Bersani is an eminent literary critic whose influential work spans half a century. His vast, in many ways unclassifiable, oeuvre has traversed and blurred the boundaries of the disciplines of modern French literature, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, art history, film theory, philosophical aesthetics, and masculinity studies and sexuality studies. Oxford University Press published Bersani's first book, on Proust, in 1965, but the work has long been out of print. This new edition comes in response to a recent renewal of interest among philosophers of literature, among others, and features a new preface from the author.


Author: Leo Bersani
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/03/2013
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780199931514

About the Author

Leo Bersani is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Intimacies ( with Adam Philips, 2008), Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity (with U. Dutoit, 2004), Forming Couples: Godard's Contempt (with U. Dutoit, 2003), Caravaggio's
Secrets (with U. Dutoit, 1998), and Homos (1995).

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