Leo Bersani

Leo Bersani (born 16 April 1931) is an American literary theorist and Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley. He also taught at Wellesley College and Rutgers University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. 2Bibliography Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art (Oxford Univ. Press, 1965) Balzac to Beckett (Oxford Univ. Press, 1970) A Future for Astyanax (Little, Brown, 1976) Baudelaire and Freud (Univ. California Press, 1977) The Death of Stéphane Mallarmé (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982) The Forms of Violence (with Ulysses Dutoit, Schocken Books, N.Y., 1985) The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (Columbia University Press, 1986) The Culture of Redemption (Harvard Univ. Press, 1990) Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko and Resnais (with Ulysse Dutoit, Harvard Univ. Press, 1993); Homos (Harvard Uni