Deleuze writes about the arts not as a critic but as a philosopher, and insists that his texts should be read as philosophical works, in the most classical sense of the term.

He extracts concepts from the literary works he examines, as well as from the connections he identifies between philosophy, literature, and the other arts.

Critiques and Clinics is not just a simple collection of articles, although most of the essays are dedicated to individual authors.

Deleuze develops a series of concepts within them like motifs that appear and reappear, and indeed connect in increasingly complex contrasting relationships, so that they find – one could say – a place in a logic of literature that is simultaneously the logic of life.