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Blanchot Maurice

The Writing of the Disaster

University of Nebraska Press

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Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century—world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning?
 
The Writing of the Disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disaster’s infinite threat. First published in French in 1980, it takes up the most serious tasks of writing: to describe, explain, and redeem when possible, and to admit what is not possible. Neither offers consolation.
 
Maurice Blanchot has been praised on both sides of the Atlantic for his fiction and criticism. The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas once remarked that Blanchot's writing is a "language of pure transcendence, without correlative." Literary theorist and critic Geoffrey Hartman remarked that Blanchot's influence on contemporary writers "cannot be overestimated."
The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire"

University of Nebraska Press

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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 consciousness.

The Space of Literature, first published in France in 1955, is central to the development of Blanchot's thought. In it he reflects on literature and the unique demand it makes upon our attention. Thus he explores the process of reading as well as the nature of artistic creativity, all the while considering the relation of the literary work to time, to history, and to death. This book consists not so much in the application of a critical method or the demonstration of a theory of literature as in a patiently deliberate meditation upon the literary experience, informed most notably by studies of Mallarmé, Kafka, Rilke, and Hölderlin. Blanchot's discussions of those writers are among the finest in any language.

Thomas the Obscure

Station Hill Pr

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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 his famous and perplexing invention, "the ontological narrative"--a tale whose subject is the nature of being itself. This paradoxical work discovers being in the absence of being, mystery in the absence of mystery, both to be searched for limitlessly. As Blanchot launches this endless search in his own masterful way, he transforms the possibilities of the novel. First issued in English in 1973 in a limited edition, this re-issue includes an illuminating essay on translation by Lamberton.
Death Sentence

Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.

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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 him in a darkened room after a bomb explosion has separated them. "Through more than 40 years, the French writer Maurice Blanchot has produced an astonishing body of fiction and criticism," writes Gilbert Sorrentino in the New York Review of Books," and John Updike in The New Yorker: "Blanchot's prose gives an impression, like Henry James, of carrying meanings so fragile they might crumble in transit."
Infinite Conversation (Theory and History of Literature)

Univ Of Minnesota Press

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L'Espace Litteraire

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Catalan Pavilion - E-Flux
E-Flux, NY - May 23, 2009
Catalan PavilionBased on the book of the same name by Maurice Blanchot, The Unavowable Community is a proposal that explores the types of social intervention adopted by various artistic practices that are developed around the idea of the communal.

Multimedia Adaptation Of HUSBANDS Comes To SVA 5/19-5/22 - Broadway World
Broadway World, NY - May 19, 2009
Multimedia Adaptation Of HUSBANDS Comes To SVA 5/19-5/22Her most recent productions include her adaptation of Fassbinder's Beware of A Holy Whore at the SVA Theater, Madness of Day by Maurice Blanchot and Neil LaBute's The Distance from Here, both at Tom Noonan's Paradise Factory in New York.

Literature as the locus of questioning and evolution in French ... - Fabula
Fabula, France - May 18, 2009
Literature as the locus of questioning and evolution in French In “Order, Disorder, Freedom, and the West Indian Writer,” Condé quotes Maurice Blanchot who, throughout his writings, seems to convey a conception of literature and fiction which Condé holds for true. In The Book to come, he states that “[t]he essence

Columbia Armenian Center Honors Balakian - Armenian Weekly
Armenian Weekly, MA - May 08, 2009
Columbia Armenian Center Honors BalakianQuoting the French writer Maurice Blanchot who wrote in 1952, “To be silent is still to speak,” he said, “to speak of silence as a social phenomenon is to speak of the many ways in which we all observe silences, and thereby agree to deal with moral

Eine sinnlose, singende Sinnsuche - Kurier
Kurier, Austria - May 21, 2009
Eine sinnlose, singende SinnsucheTexte (von TS Eliot, Maurice Blanchot, Franz Kafka und Samuel Beckett) dienen dem deutschen Komponisten und Theatermacher als Folie für ein vierköpfiges A-cappella-Ensemble; vier Geschichten will Goebbels damit erzählen. Fragt sich aber nur: Welche Kritik an zeitgenössischem Vokalstil