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This chapter focuses on Gilles Deleuze's reading of the works of Marcel Proust. It explains that in the concordance of literary allusions in Deleuze's works, the Proust entry is the longest, and that allusions are present in practically all his books, from Proust and Signs to Essays Critical and Clinical. The chapter examines how Deleuze constructed a philosophical concept of strong reading and suggests that there are six such determinations of this concept.

This chapter suggests that the French literary genre called le fantastique or gothic may well lend itself to the type of strong reading which Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze practised, explaining that this type of literature was blissfully ignored by these two philosophers. It argues that the gothic text may be an excellent candidate for the staging or capture of a Badiou-type event, and that it may also be the site of processes of becoming, of deterritorialisation and of minorisation which will be aptly accounted for in Deleuzian terms.