Michel Foucault
Death and the Labyrinth
- ISBN 13:
- 9780826493620
- author:
- Michel Foucault
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2006
- Pages:
- 240
- Genre:
- Literature
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Death and the Labyrinth is Michel Foucault's unique exploration of literature, written with great pleasure. This revised edition includes an introduction, chronology and bibliography to Foucault's work, as well as an interview conducted just nine months before his death.
Foucault examines theory, criticism and psychology through the texts of Raymond Roussel, a pioneering experimental writer celebrated by artists such as Cocteau, Duchamp, Breton, Robbe Grillet, Gide and Giacometti. The book concludes with an essay on Roussel by poet John Ashbery.
First published in 2007, this paperback edition provides a rare insight into Foucault's thoughts on literature and his own work.