Letters of Marcel Proust

A charming, funny, poignant collection of 23 letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour.

There is not one corner of the earth where the alleged crime of sodomy has not had shrines and votaries. ~Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to refuse what we are….We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality. ~Michel Foucault, ‘The Subject and Power’ Do opposites attract? Is desire lack? These assumptions have become so much a part of the ways in which we conceive desire that they are rarely questioned.