num_pages: 221
description: The Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title from the first essay a startlingly original interpretation of Proust. By way of Neoplatonism Buddhism and the work of Melanie Klein Sedgwick establishes the sense of refreshment and surprise that the author of the Recherche affords his readers. Proust also figures in pieces on the poetry of C. P. Cavafy object relations affect theory and Sedgwicks textile art practices. More explicitly connected to her role as a pioneering queer theorist are an exuberant attack against reactionary refusals of the work of Guy Hocquenghem and talks in which she lays out her central ideas about sexuality and her concerns about the direction of US queer theory. Sedgwick lived for more than a dozen years with a diagnosis of terminal cancer; its implications informed her later writing and thinking as well as her spiritual and artistic practices. In the books final and most personal essay she reflects on the realization of her impending death. Featuring thirty-seven color images of her art The Weather in Proust offers a comprehensive view of Sedgwicks later work underscoring its diversity and coherence.
language: English
title: The Weather in Proust
publisher: Duke University Press Books