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"Landy's book delivers what has gone long and scandalously missing: a philosophical analysis of Proust's incomparable book that is muscular, concise, philosophically informed and sophisticated. . . . The book should for a long time be inescapable for anyone writing philosophically about Proust, and perhaps for anyone writing philosophically about imaginative literature, full stop. It is that good."-Philosophy and Literature
"Landy's persuasive thesis is that the Recherche converges unwittingly with the philosophy of Nietzsche, whose prescription, 'In order to act we require the veil of illusion: such is Hamlet's doctrine,' Landy cross-refers to Proust with telling results."-Times Literary Supplement

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INTRODUCTION: PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION (NOBODY'S MADELEINE) ; CODA: STYLE (PROUST'S SENTENCES)

Philosophy as Fiction

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    Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Publication Date: 4/27/2009 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780195389357, 978-0195389357
    ISBN10: 0195389352
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    Trade Review
    "Landy's book delivers what has gone long and scandalously missing: a philosophical analysis of Proust's incomparable book that is muscular, concise, philosophically informed and sophisticated. . . . The book should for a long time be inescapable for anyone writing philosophically about Proust, and perhaps for anyone writing philosophically about imaginative literature, full stop. It is that good."-Philosophy and Literature
    "Landy's persuasive thesis is that the Recherche converges unwittingly with the philosophy of Nietzsche, whose prescription, 'In order to act we require the veil of illusion: such is Hamlet's doctrine,' Landy cross-refers to Proust with telling results."-Times Literary Supplement

    Table of Contents
    INTRODUCTION: PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION (NOBODY'S MADELEINE) ; CODA: STYLE (PROUST'S SENTENCES)

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