ABSTRACT

This is the first comprehensive introduction to Deleuze's work on literature. It provides thorough treatments of Deleuze's early book on Proust and his seminal volume on Kafka and minor literature. Deleuze on Literature situates those studies and many other scattered writings within a general project that extends throughout Deleuze's career-that of conceiving of literature as a form of health and the writer as a cultural physician.

chapter |8 pages

Introduct ion

chapter 1|22 pages

SICKNESS, S IGNS, AND SENSE

chapter 2|28 pages

PROUST’S S IGN MACHINE

chapter 3|32 pages

KAFKA’S LAW MACHINE

chapter 4|24 pages

MINOR LITERATURE

chapter 5|36 pages

KLEIST, BENE, AND MINOR THEATER

chapter 6|36 pages

LIFE, LINES, VISIONS, AUDITIONS