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.
Indeed, the book argues that Barthes\'s writing on Proust\'s work between the early 1950s.
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.
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