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Author:   Maurice Blanchot ,  Michael Holland
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9780823281800

ISBN 10:   0823281809
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   02 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction by Michael Holland 1 The Mystery of Criticism 11 Return to the Source 16 From One Novel to Another 21 The Four Gospels 27 From Jean- Paul to Giraudoux 31 A Diary without Episodes 36 On the Subject of Language 40 The Romance of Mademoiselle Aïssé 45 The Joy of Storytelling 49 Outlawed Idols 53 The Art of André Dhôtel 58 Balzac’s Way of Working 63 The Gothic Novel 68 The Secrets of the Dream 73 A Novel by Jarry 78 Novellas and Stories 84 Chateaubriand’s Secret 88 Fantastic Novels 93 Air and Dreams 97 Joyce’s First Novel 102 A Secret Tone 107 The Literary I 112 Charles Cros 117 The Birth of Rome 122 William Blake 127 On the Various Ways of Dying 132 Pages by Paul Claudel 137 Narratives 142 Léon Bloy 147 Poems 153 The Concern for Sincerity 160 No Man’s Son 165 The Magical Experience of Henri Michaux 169 A Chronology of the “Chronicles of Intellectual Life” Collected in Faux pas 175 Notes 179 Index 195

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The time has come to pay attention to Blanchot's early literary and political journalism (his missteps included) which, surprisingly, the first generation of his postwar admirers barely noted. It reminds us, among other things, that this major theoretician of literary modernity has never been associated with academia. The discipline of the newspaper was his first critical exercise. This volume collects, in chronological order, the articles Blanchot published weekly for the literary page of Le Journal des deÌ bats during the year 1944 and, in doing so, provides a remarkably rich overview of the French literary atmosphere during these fateful days. It is also unmistakably haunted by the ghost of a Blanchot to come. --Denis Hollier, New York University

"""The time has come to pay attention to Blanchot's early literary and political journalism (his missteps included) which, surprisingly, the first generation of his postwar admirers barely noted. It reminds us, among other things, that this major theoretician of literary modernity has never been associated with academia. The discipline of the newspaper was his first critical exercise. This volume collects, in chronological order, the articles Blanchot published weekly for the literary page of Le Journal des débats during the year 1944 and, in doing so, provides a remarkably rich overview of the French literary atmosphere during these fateful days. It is also unmistakably haunted by the ghost of a Blanchot to come.""---Denis Hollier, New York University"

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Maurice Blanchot (Author) Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003)—writer, critic, and journalist—was one of the most important voices in twentieth-century literature and thought. His books include Thomas the Obscure, The Instant of my Death, The Writing of the Disaster, and The Unavowable Community. Michael Holland (Translator) Michael Holland is a Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford.

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