The criticism in the underground

In this collection of texts, written by the author between 1963 and 1972, René Girard lays out the foundations of his critical evolution, outlining the foundations that would later appear in his other works. Here, as a literary critic, he reveals how the processes of self-discovery of authors such as Dostoevsky, Camus, and Victor Hugo illuminate the divisions found in their own works, and identifies the problems of contemporary psychoanalysis, highlighting the flaws and contradictions of Deleuze and Guattari's Oedipus complex. It is a fundamental work for understanding the theoretical principles of this author, who is increasingly consolidating himself as a central figure in modern thought.