This book confronts the singularity of the relationship between two exemplary writers of the last century in order to challenge and to reinvigorate our notions of what art and criticism - literary or otherwise - can do.
While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching.
Indeed, the book argues that Barthes's writing on Proust's work between the early 1950s .
Liverpool University Press Roland barthes: the proust variations, hardcover/thomas baldwin
