Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations - Thomas Baldwin

This book concerns the `variations' operated by Barthes on A la recherche du temps perdu over a period of three decades. It reads the Proustian oeuvre through the prism of Barthes, providing new readings of Proust's novel and of Barthes's own writings, and revealing an intricate - and inconsistent - web of references and circulations between the two.