Maurice Blanchot: 2 books
The Space of Literature
A Translation of "L'Espace littéraire"
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
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...
by Maurice Blanchot
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
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,...