Between them, the Co-Editors offer specialist expertise in Beckett, Proust, and Deleuze, the three foci of the collection: MARY BRYDEN is Professor of French Studies at the University of Reading, UK. She is a recent past President of the Samuel Beckett Society, and a former Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation. Her extensive publications on Samuel Beckett and Gilles Deleuze include Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God, Deleuze and Religion (ed.), and Gilles Deleuze: Travels in Literature . MARGARET TOPPING is Senior Lecturer in French at the School of European Studies at Cardiff University, UK. Her major publications include Proust�s Gods and Supernatural Proust , as well as… the edited collection Eastern Voyages, Western Visions: French Writing and Painting of the Orient .