Deleuze on Literature Author: Ronald Berger (USA) Publisher: Nanjing University Press

Introduction
☆☆☆ An exquisite introduction to Deleuze's thought☆☆☆
Carefully read and analyze the core text language creation of genius writers
Tracing back to the origins, interpreting Deleuze's literary ideas and philosophical insights
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Deleuze on Literature is a comprehensive guide to Deleuze's literary works. Through a careful reading of Deleuze's core texts on literature, Borg examines illness and health in the works of Sax-Masoch and Carroll, signs in Proust's works, Kafka's literary machine, the concept of "minor literature", Carmelo Bene's minor drama, and TE Lawrence and Beckett's "vision and hearing" in each chapter, thus providing a clear and systematic explanation of Deleuze's approach to the art of writing.
Deleuze on Literature places these studies and many other scattered texts into a general project that runs throughout Deleuze's intellectual career: literature as a form of health and the writer as the physician of culture.
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☆ "Borg's book examines and interprets the entirety of Deleuze's work, providing a brilliant and clear insight into the relationship between Deleuze and literature."
—Claire Colebrook, University of Edinburgh, author of Gilles Deleuze
☆ "Deleuze on Literature once again shows why we have long respected Ronald Borg as one of the most productive Deleuze critics. This comprehensive work on Deleuze's literary studies reveals the logical connection between Deleuze's literary criticism and philosophical criticism, as well as the logical connection between his philosophy of language and philosophy of life. This work is "the most extraordinary thing that seems ordinary, and the easiest thing to achieve is difficult." Any reader interested in the "critical and clinical" method used by Deleuze in studying philosophy and literature will benefit greatly from this book."
—Paul Patton, University of New South Wales, author of Deleuze and Politics
About the Author
Ronald Bogue (1948- ) is an emeritus professor of comparative literature at the University of Georgia, USA, and a Deleuze expert. His representative works include "Deleuze and Guattari" and the "Deleuze and Art" series ("Deleuze on Music, Painting and Art", "Deleuze on Literature", "Deleuze on Film"), etc.
Table of contents · · · · · ·
Abbreviations / 1
Introduction/ 1
Chapter 1 Diseases, Symptoms, and Meanings / 10
Interpretation and Evaluation / 11
Masochism and Sadomasochism / 17
Meaning and Surface / 27
Chapter 2 Proust's Sign Machine / 40
Diffusion and Interpretation of Symbols / 41
Reinterpretation of Fu Zheng/ 50
The reproduction and production of symbols/56
Machine/64
Chapter 3 Kafka's Legal Machine / 73
Desire Machine and Desire Production / 74
What is a machine? / 78
Single Machine/85
Writing Machine/92
Legal Machine/98
Art and Life/107
Chapter 4 Secondary Literature / 111
Minority Literature/112
Deterritorialized Language / 115
Language and Power / 119
Secondary Use of Language / 122
Sound and Meaning / 126
Collective installation of statement / 132
Chapter 5 Kleist, Bene, and Minor Drama / 140
Crest and the War Machine / 141
War and Penthesilea / 147
Richard of Benedict / 154
Obscene History / 160
Deleuze's Bene / 167
Drama and People / 178
Chapter 6 Life, Routes, Vision, and Hearing / 183
Escape Line/184
Line/188
Vision and Hearing / 196
Vision, Trajectory and Generation / 206
Finale: Beckett's TV Series / 213
Conclusion/226
References/ 233
Translation comparison table/ 237