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Faux Pas
Maurice Blanchot

Stanford University Press, 2002

Published in France in 1943, Faux Pas is the first collection of Maurice Blanchot’s essays on literature and language, consisting of fifty-four short pieces that were originally issued as reviews in literary journals, and one long introductory meditation that defines the trajectory of the whole volume. These essays—like those collected in the other five books of criticism published over several decades—have established ...

Lautreamont and Sade

1 review
Maurice Blanchot

Stanford University Press, 2004

Fascinating
'Lautreamont and Sade' is a compilation of two essays, each focusing solely upon the titular authors, the Marquis de Sade and the Comte de Lautreamont. While Blanchot's essay on Sade consistently reveals new insight into the work of this controversial deviant philosopher, his examination of Lautreamont (which is considerably longer for reasons obvious to anyone familiar with the two) is the ...

The Work of Fire (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Maurice Blanchot

Stanford University Press, 1995

The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire"

1 review
Maurice Blanchot

University of Nebraska Press, 1989

The Space of Absence
Better to read this than to read ten manuals on the subject of writing. Blanchot evokes the non-presence of death in writing, writing's necessary complicity with death. This death, however, is not the Hegelian death that would negate and finalize the subject (cf Arendt), fixing it in a form on which judgement could finally be passed. No, true to his essay on the absence of any right to death ...

The Writing of the Disaster

2 reviews
Maurice Blanchot

University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Worn Down Past the Nubb
To rate this book is to do its author a disservice. I might as well have given the text one star, for it makes no 'sense'. It is a multiple work, in the spirit of Nietzsche's aphoristic style, that attempts to lend a few scents to the reader. These scents might lead one to a space of silence in which the artist or writer relates with the source of his or her law, the inactive voice of reason. ...

The Infinite Conversation (Theory and History of Literature)

3 reviews
Maurice Blanchot

University of Minnesota Press, 1992

An infinite re-source
Among Blanchot's publications in American (English), this is one the reader can turn to repeatedly. The index is wonderful, and the Introduction by the translator is very helpful when trying to situate ourselves within the con-text of Blanchot's work. I never start at the beginning of the book and read it in order. Instead I'll open it randomly and scan the words until I am drawn in, somehow. ...

The Unavowable Community

2 reviews
Maurice Blanchot

Station Hill Press, 1988

If you can locate a copy, you'll entrust it to your friends.
I have been reading and re-reading this nearly "page-less"(about 80 pages including the translator's introduction ) volume of ___?(what is it? autobiography?poetry?) for about 4 years now . I can't get it out of my mind. I was hard-pressed to read any philosophy until I tried this remarkable author's work. Since then, I've gradually made my way into this new kind of "inquiry" mainly from the ...

The Station Hill Blanchot Reader
Maurice Blanchot

Barrytown Limited, 1998

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 haunting presence of a language that brings language itself into question as it searches the borders of what can be said in its time." (from the Foreword) ...

The Marquis de Sade: The Complete Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and other writings

1 review
the Marquis de Sade

Grove Press, 1965

as shocking today as 200+ years ago
"Philosophy In the Bedroom" is probably the goriest, most sexually graphic thing I've ever read, yet strangely arousing, I was actually putting myself in Eugenie's place at some moments. In an age were we are bombarded with sexual innuendo all day every day, Sade figuratively shoves our faces in it and blasts away every taboo possible. No wonder this caused such a stir in the late 1700's; it's ...

The Book to Come (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Maurice Blanchot

Stanford University Press, 2002

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 the work of the most distinguished French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, for example, are hardly imaginable without Blanchot. ...

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

1 review
Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida

Stanford University Press, 2000

A Derrida Must-Read!!!
The first part of the book is a short story by Blanchot and the seond part is Derrida's analysis. Derrida's critique is amazing stuff. He performs a close-reading, line by line. Derrida is one of the greatest thinkers, if not the most thought provoking theorist/critic, of our time.

Death Sentence

6 reviews
Maurice Blanchot, Lydia Davis

Barrytown Limited, 1998

Staring Death in the Eye
A short, harrowing work interested neither in description, character development, nor cleverness but rather in staring death in the eye. If you like Barbara Kingsolver, Stephen King, or even Raymond Carver you doubtless may detest this abstract gift of a conflicted consciousness of a taciturn man in love with a sickly, dying young woman during troubled times. Perhaps the supreme study of the ...

Thomas the Obscure

1 review
Maurice Blanchot

Station Hill Pr, 1995

An Unsettling Book
The tendency of prose to settle while being read will not be found in this book. Stability of the mind will be a memory worth forgetting as you embark into a personalized world of disturbing imagery (disturbing in a good sense)and ambiguity at its absolute height. A must read for anyone interested in non'linear literature.

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