Description
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 in America as one of the truly great authors of French Post-Modernism, Blanchot's reputation and readership in English has already established him as a modern classic. The Blanchot Reader brings together a substantial collection of critical and philosophical writings (The Gaze of Orpheus) and the only edition in print in English of his major works of fiction (Thomas the Obscure, Death Sentence, Vicious Circles, The Madness of the Day, When the Time Comes and The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me). General readers and students alike will seek out these essential works by the writer Susan Sontag referred to as an unimpeachably major voice in modern French literature. Maurice Blanchot is now recognized as a major twentieth century philosopher whose influence extends to the works of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lacan and others.
Author: Maurice Blanchot
Publisher: Station Hill Press
Published: 02/01/1995
Pages: 554
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.03w x 1.71d
ISBN13: 9781886449176
ISBN10: 1886449171
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Literary Criticism | European | French
Author: Maurice Blanchot
Publisher: Station Hill Press
Published: 02/01/1995
Pages: 554
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.03w x 1.71d
ISBN13: 9781886449176
ISBN10: 1886449171
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Literary Criticism | European | French
About the Author
Maurice Blanchot is one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in modern French writing yet no interview, no biographical sketch, and hardly any photographs have ever been published of him. His work encompasses the writing of novels and recits as well as articles and books of philosophical (or to be precise anti-philosophical) criticism. He is one of the few significant theorists of literature of the last century to have worked outside a university context, yet for fifty years, he has been the most consistent champion of modern literature and its tradition in French letters.