The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze

This book explores the work of spectres in Denis Diderot's Salons , Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu , and Gilles Deleuze's Francis Bacon, logique de la sensation . It examines the extent to which Diderot, Proust and Deleuze are able to resist the 'Marcellus complex'.