This study of Blanchot examines the problematic interaction between the two forms of discourse critical and fictional that comprise the writer s oeuvre. The result elucidates the thought of one of the most important figures on the French intellectual scene of the past... Lees meer.

This reader provides a perspective on the intellectual and personal career of Blanchot. It shows how the linguistic turn of the 1950s took place for him in a political climate and traces the emergence of the entretien a dialogue format used by Blanchot to interrogate h... Lees meer.

This essential reader from Station Hill Blanchot s longtime publisher in the United States is six books in one and the first and only collection of Maurice Blanchot s celebrated fiction and critical philosophical writing. Regarded both on the European continent and i... Lees meer.

In these two essays two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect on each other s work. In so doing novelist essayist Maurice Blanchot and philosopher Michel Foucault develop a new perspective on the relationship between subjectivity fiction and the... Lees meer.

Maurice Blanchot the eminent literary and cultural critic has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day his writings have been shaping the international literary consci... Lees meer.

Holly Langstaff reappraises the influential French thinker Maurice Blanchot s writing from the 1940s to his late work in the 1980s demonstrating how Blanchot s exploration of the question of technology remains decisive throughout his career. She situates Blanchot s... Lees meer.

29 critical essays and reviews on art politics literature and philosophy document the wide range of Blanchot s interests from the enigmatic paintings in the Lascaux caves to the atomic era. For the past half century Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily... Lees meer.

This long awaited reprint of a book about which John Hollander wrote. A masterful version of one of the most remarkable novels in any language since World War II is the story of the narrator s relations with two women one terminally ill the other found motionless by... Lees meer.

Published in France in 1943 Faux Pas is the first collection of essays on literature and language by Maurice Blanchot the most lucid and powerful French critic of the second half of the 20th century. Published in France in 1943 Faux Pas is the first collection of... Lees meer.

Before Sartre before Beckett before Robbe-Grillet Maurice Blanchot created the new novel the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940 Blanchot s first novel here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton contains all the remarkable aspects of... Lees meer.

The fourth volume of Blanchot s war-time chronicles reflects a commitment to silence and a detachment from circumstance as Germany s occupation of France reaches its end. Convinced that disaster is now insuperable Blanchot neutralizes the nihilism of that position thr... Lees meer.

This work takes the form of a conversation an interview. An obsessive questioning back and forth builds up Blanchot s narrative with its sense--shared with Kafka s famous doorkeeper parable--that behind each question lies the spooky possibility of a further more impo... Lees meer.

Jacques Derrida writes in Deconstruction and Criticism of The Madness of the Day that it is a story whose title runs wild and drives the reader mad.la folie du jour the madness of today of the day today which leads to the madness that comes from the day is born of... Lees meer.

Provides a unique perspective on cultural life during the German Occupation offers crucial insights into the mind and art of one of the most original writers in the second half of the twentieth century The German occupation of France put an end to Maurice Blancho... Lees meer.

This volume a powerful short prose piece by Blanchot with an extended essay by Derrida records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking. This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking. a meeting of two of th... Lees meer.