Proust Between Deleuze and Derrida: The Remains of Literature

James Dutton argues that Proust’s lone published text, À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27), stages a uniquely productive encounter between philosophy and literature. In its genre—defying originality, it anticipates some of the most important concepts and strategies of poststructuralist French thought exemplified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze.