Gilles Deleuze Travels in Literature Mary Bryden Gilles Deleuze Also by Mary Bryden DELEUZE AND RELIGION (editor) SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE IDEA OF GOD SAMUEL BECKETT AND MUSIC (editor) WOMEN IN SAMUEL BECKETT’S PROSE AND DRAMA: Her Own Other Gilles Deleuze Travels in Literature Mary Bryden Professor of European Literature, French, Cardiff University © Mary Bryden 2007 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-0-230-51753-0 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. 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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bryden,Mary,1953– Gilles Deleuze:travels in literature / Mary Bryden. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1.Literature,Modern—20th century—History and criticism.2.Literature,Modern— 19th century—History and criticism.3.Deleuze,Gilles— Criticism and interpretation. I.Title. PN771.B79 2007 801’.95092—dc22 2006050048 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 Contents List of Abbreviations vi Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 1. Travelling by Camel: T. E. Lawrence and the Portability of Shame 11 2. Travel by Sea: Herman Melville 30 3. Travelling Inwards: D. H. Lawrence 50 4. Land-to-Air Travel: Michel Tournier 84 5. Travelling on Foot and Bicycle: Self-locomotion in Samuel Beckett 116 Afterword 155 Notes 162 Works Cited 175 Index 181 v List of Abbreviations AB L’Abécédaire. Filmed interviews with Gilles Deleuze, directed by Pierre-André Boutang (Paris: Vidéo Editions Montparnasse, 1996). AM D. H. Lawrence, ‘Art and Morality’, in D. H. Lawrence: Selected CriticalWritings(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). AO Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Capitalisme et Schizophrénie: L’Anti-Oedipe(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1972). AP D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse, in Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980). ATF Samuel Beckett, All That Fall, in Collected Shorter Plays of SamuelBeckett(London: Faber, 1984). BB Herman Melville, ‘Billy Budd’, in Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985). BF Gilles Deleuze, ‘Bartleby, ou la Formule’, in Critique et clinique(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1993). CC Gilles Deleuze, Critique et clinique(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1993). Essays within this collection which are referred to substantively receive separate abbreviations (seeBF,HG). CI Gilles Deleuze, Cinéma I: L’Image-Mouvement(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1983). CP D. H. Lawrence, ‘Chaos in Poetry’, in D. H. Lawrence: Selected CriticalWritings(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). CPI The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence, Vol. I (London: Heinemann, 1967). D Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues(Paris: Flammarion, 1977). DA André Malraux, Le Démon de l’absolu, in Oeuvres com- plètes, Vol. II (Paris: Gallimard, 1996). EP Gilles Deleuze, L’Epuisé, in Samuel Beckett, Quad, et autres piecespour la télévision(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1992). vi List of Abbreviations vii ETP D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950). F Samuel Beckett, Footfalls, in Collected Shorter Plays of SamuelBeckett(London: Faber, 1984). FM Samuel Beckett, Film, in Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett(London: Faber, 1984). FU D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious(with Psychoanalysis andthe Unconscious) (London: Heinemann, 1961). GJ Michel Tournier, Gilles et Jeanne(Paris: Gallimard, 1983). HC Gilles Deleuze, ‘Hélène Cixous ou l'Ecriture strobo- scopique’, in L’Ile déserte et autres textes(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 2002). HD Samuel Beckett, Happy Days/Oh les beaux jours, ed. James Knowlson (London: Faber, 1978). HG Gilles Deleuze, ‘La Honte et la Gloire: T. E. Lawrence’, inCritique et clinique(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1993). HMTO D. H. Lawrence, ‘Herman Melville’s TypeeandOmoo’, inStudies inClassic American Literature(London: Heinemann, 1964). ID Gilles Deleuze, ‘Causes et raisons des îles désertes’, in L’Ile déserteet autres textes(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 2002). K Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Kafka: pour une littérature mineure (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1975). KR D. H. Lawrence, Kangaroo(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950). L The Letters of D. H. Lawrence(London: Heinemann, 1932). LE Samuel Beckett, ‘L’Expulsé’, in Nouvelles et Textes pour rien(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1958). LS Gilles Deleuze, Logique du sens(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1969). LSI Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation, Vol. I (Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1981). LSII Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation, Vol. II (Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1981). MC Samuel Beckett, Mercier et Camier(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1970). viii List of Abbreviations MD Herman Melville, Moby-Dick(New York: W. W. Norton, 1967). ML Samuel Beckett, Molloy(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1951). MM Samuel Beckett, Malone meurt(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1951). MP Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Capitalisme et Schizophrénie: Mille plateaux(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1980). MT Gilles Deleuze, ‘Michel Tournier et le monde sans autrui’, ‘Postface’ to Michel Tournier, Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique(Paris: Gallimard, 1972). MU Samuel Beckett, Murphy(London: Picador, 1973). NI Samuel Beckett, Not I, in Collected Shorter Plays (London: Faber, 1984). PI Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence (London: Heinemann, 1936). PII Phoenix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other Prose Works by D. H. Lawrence(London: Heinemann, 1968). PN Gilles Deleuze, ‘Pensée nomade’, in L’Ile déserte et autres textes(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 2002). PR Gilles Deleuze, Pourparlers(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1990). PRE Fanny and Gilles Deleuze, preface to D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse, trans. Fanny Deleuze (Paris: Editions Balland, 1978). PSM Gilles Deleuze, Présentation de Sacher-Masoch(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1967). PU D. H. Lawrence, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, in Fantasia ofthe UnconsciousandPsychoanalysis and the Unconscious(London: Heinemann, 1961). QP Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Qu’est-ce que la philosophie?(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1991). RC Daniel Defoe, The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe(London: Milner, 1895). SP T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962). SPI D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Spirit of Place’, in Studies in Classic AmericanLiterature(London: Heinemann, 1964). List of Abbreviations ix SS D. H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). T Herman Melville, Typee(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1938). TM T. E. Lawrence, The Mint(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978). TMWD D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Man Who Died’, in The Tales of D. H. Lawrence(London: Martin Secker, 1934). TPR Samuel Beckett, Textes pour rien, in Nouvelles et Textes pour rien(Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1958). Number of textefollows abbreviation. TU Michel Tournier, ‘Tupik’, in Le Coq de bruyère(Paris: Gallimard, 1978). V Michel Tournier, Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique (Paris: Gallimard, 1972). VI Michel Tournier and Jean-Max Toubeau, Le Vagabond immobile(Paris: Gallimard, 1984). VP Michel Tournier, Le Vent paraclet(Paris: Gallimard, 1977). WNOA D. H. Lawrence, ‘We Need One Another’, in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence (London: Heinemann, 1936).