SOURCE: A review of Critique et clinique, in World Literature Today, Vol. 68, No. 3, Summer, 1994, pp. 526-27.

In the following favorable review of Clinique et critique, Evenson contends that the book “serves as an intriguing and varied introduction to Deleuze's ideas, providing a broad picture of his current modes of thought.”

The French philosopher and literary critic Gilles Deleuze's latest book is a collection of seventeen essays, about half of which have been previously published: The majority of the essays treat of language and literature, with a few focusing on psychological issues. Many of the essays return to those authors and theorists whom Deleuze often favors—Nietzsche, Sacher-Masoch, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett—but whom he rethinks, redefining his previous opinions about them. “Re-présentation de Masoch,” for instance, reworks the ideas in Deleuze's Présentation de Sacher-Masoch, published more than twenty years ago. “Bégaya-t-il” clarifies the ideas of...