Nietzsche and Proust A Comparative Study [Hardcover]

This book combines a Nietzschean reading of Proust's novelA la recherche du temps perduwith a Proustian reading of Nietzsche's philosophy. It focuses on the problem of knowledge, the status of the self, the experience of transcendence, and the complex time structures in the works of the two writers.

List of Abbreviations, Editions, and Translations
Introduction: Nietzsche andProust?
1. Towards a Comparative Analysis: Four Case Studies
2. Proust's Nietzsche
3. Epistemoptics: Proust's Perspectivism
4. In Search of the Self
5. Logics of the Future Perfect
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Duncan Large is Lecturer in German, University of Wales Swansea