Félix Guattari's "Swann"

This article examines Félix Guattari's long essay in L'Inconscient machinique: essais de schizo-analyse (1979) on the life of a musical refrain – Vinteuil's 'petite phrase' – in Du côté de chez Swann (and elsewhere in Proust's Recherche). In doing so, it explores som of...

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Main Author: Baldwin, Thomas
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
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Summary:This article examines Félix Guattari's long essay in L'Inconscient machinique: essais de schizo-analyse (1979) on the life of a musical refrain – Vinteuil's 'petite phrase' – in Du côté de chez Swann (and elsewhere in Proust's Recherche). In doing so, it explores som of the connections between Guattari's text and the work of Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari on Proust and other writers. It also argues that Guattari's essay, which has received almost no critical attention, is essential for an understanding of what Barthes calls the 'Variations' of Proust's novel, and of the ways in which Deleuze and Guattari engage with the Recherche across several decades of shifting critical landscapes.
ISSN:1571-5647
1879-5870
DOI:10.1163/9789004302426_005