1st Edition
Writing the Mind Representing Consciousness from Proust to the Present
Introduction
Chapter One: Self / Marcel Proust
Chapter Two: Soul / Georges Bernanos and the Catholic Novelists
Chapter Three: Subject / André Breton
Chapter Four: Being-for-itself / Jean-Paul Sartre
Chapter Five: Spiral / Samuel Beckett
Chapter Six: Tropism / Nathalie Sarraute
Chapter Seven: Brain/ Marie Darrieussecq’s Bref séjour chez les vivants (A Brief Stay with the Living)
Conclusion
Biography
Simon Kemp is Associate Professor of French at Sommerville College, Oxford.
"Kemp’s study of the mind in the modern European novel is a skilful and elegant book which will be required reading for anyone interested not only in how literature explores inner worlds, but in what these explorations tell us about conceptions of the mind more generally. The book provides a sharply intelligent account of competing theories yet is not theory-driven, preferring instead to consider how ideas about consciousness at a given moment in history stack up against the complexities of inner worlds as writers portray them." -- Professor Shirley Jordan, Queen Mary University of London
