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Death Sentence

by Maurice Blanchot

Blanchot's famous fictive recit, tr Lydia Davis

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The Writing of the Disaster

by Maurice Blanchot

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... (learn more about this book)

The Space of Literature

by Maurice Blanchot

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... (learn more about this book)

The Infinite Conversation

by Maurice Blanchot

Published in France in 1969, this substantial addition to the "Theory and History of Literature" series could more readily be described as philosophy. Blanchot, a noted French literary critic who is as conversant with German literary philosophy as with French, has addressed the primary issues... (learn more about this book)

The Instant of My Death / Demeure: Fiction and Testimony (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).)

by Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida

This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relation to their own pasts. More than a literary... (learn more about this book)

The Station Hill Blanchot Reader

by Maurice Blanchot

Fiction/Literary Criticism, translated from the French by Lydia Davis, Paul Auster and Robert Lamberton, with a foreward by Christopher Fynsk and an afterword by George Quasha and Charles Stein, edited by George Quasha. Maurice Blanchot, in his "rcits" and essays alike, attends to "the... (learn more about this book)

Thomas the Obscure

by Maurice Blanchot

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... (learn more about this book)

Foucault / Blanchot: Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside and Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him

by Michel Foucault

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 will to truth. The two... (learn more about this book)

Friendship (Meridian - Crossing Aesthetics)

by Maurice Blanchot

For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. This collection of 29 critical essays and reviews on... (learn more about this book)

The Book to Come (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).)

by Charlotte Mandell

During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substance, left their unmistakable imprint on... (learn more about this book)