Deleuze on Literature

Ronald Bogue

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780415966061
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135777197
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Aesthetics in Philosophy
• Index: Literature

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.

Index

abstract machine: as pure Function-Matter, 106; in Kafka, 77, 83; in relation to collective assemblages of enunciation and nondiscursive machinic assemblages, 100; two senses of, 201n. 27

Artaud, Antonin: and Carroll’s “Jabberwocky,” 22, 26–28; and action-words/passion-words, 27; and cris-souffles (cries-breaths), 27, 101, 107, 113–14; in contrast to schizophrenic Louis Wolfson, 29, 196n. 22

assemblages: abstract machine and assemblages, 100; collective assemblages of enunciation, 98–100, 108–12, 187; defined, 202n. 4; nondiscursive machinic assemblages, 98–100, 187

auditions. See visions and auditions

Bacon, Francis, 105–06, 130, 179

Balzac, Honoré de, 56–57

Beckett, Samuel: affinities with Deleuze, 205n. 13; and minor usage of language, 101, 107, 113–14, 191; and stone-sucking machine in Molloy, 72, 80, 199n. 13; boring holes in language, 177–78; television plays, 7, 182–85, 191; language I (of words), 180–81; language II (of voices), 181; language III (of the espace quelconque and images), 181–82

becoming-animal, 77, 103–06, 124

becoming-woman, 124–25, 146

Bene, Carmelo: and ethnic theater, 148–49; and history, 134–36; and the impossible, 130–31; and theater’s utopian function, 136–37; as exemplar of minor theater, 137–49, 192; biography, 126–27; luxury, and the obscene, 131–33; productions of Hamlet, 202–03n. 4, 203n. 8

Bergson, Henri: and crystal of the unconscious, 172; and sense, 24; and the virtual past, 40, 197n. 2

Blei, Franz, 102

Boa, Elizabeth, 200n. 16, 200n. 20

body without organs, 27, 61–62, 66–67, 197n. 2, 198n. 4, 198–99n. 9

Bréhier, Emile, 195n. 18, 195n. 19

Brod, Max, 75, 78, 200n. 22, 201n. 26

Canetti, Elias, 200n. 19

Carrière, Mathieu, 118–24, 202n. 2

Carroll, Lewis: and Stoic incorporeals, 23–24; and surfaces, 3, 26, 28, 190, 196n. 23; Artaud, and the child, the poet, and the madman, 3, 28–29; sense, and nonsense, 22–26, 154; Snark, and aleatory point, 25–26

Carrouges, Michel, 68–71, 199n. 14, 200n. 17

Célibataire, 111, 200n. 16

celibate machine, 62, 68–74, 199n. 14

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 101, 107, 114, 191

Cendrars, Blaise, 202n. 6

Cézanne, Paul, 176

chaosmos, modern art work as Joycean, 4, 58, 188

Chateaubriand, René de, 47, 57

Chronos and Aion, 195n. 19

complicatio (complication), 37–38. See also explication and implication

conceptual personae, 194n. 7

contes and nouvelles, 157–58, 204n. 3

critique and clinique, 9, 15–16, 28, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• One: Sickness, Signs, and Sense
• Two: Proust’s Sign Machine
• Three: Kafka’s Law Machine
• Four: Minor Literature
• Five: Kleist, Bene, and Minor Theater
• Six: Life, Lines, Visions, Auditions
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index