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Thus, in reading Beckett alongside Blanchot via the conceptual framework of terror, Langlois finds Beckett's work to be inextricably political, offering a corrective to the widespread critical assumption that both Blanchot and Blanchot's version of Beckett are ahistorical and apolitical thinkers. [...] With great power and critical sensitivity, Langlois corrects this understanding of Blanchot and in so doing offers a whole new understanding of Beckett, which is certainly no small achievement. [...] This work is one of the best monographs on Beckett to appear in recent years, and in creating a new understanding of Beckett acutely relevant to our own twenty-first century historical pressures and exigencies, Langlois pushes Beckett studies forward in challenging and new ways. --Jacob Hovind The French Review Langlois's book is a rigorous study of literary terror in theoretical and aesthetic modernism in Europe. It is not only a welcome addition to literature on Blanchot and Beckett, but also an important contribution towards understanding terror as a historical affect with onto-epistemological qualities. In our world, where terrorism has become perhaps the most important global problem, the book conceptually investigates this important notion of terror and even resignifies it in the process. It raises serious questions about any simplistic construction of a literary ethic by reminding us how the literary is itself the ontological hotbed of terror. --Arka Chattopadhyay Modernism/modernity

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Christopher Langlois teaches in the Department of English at Dawson College, Montréal, Canada. He has published articles in such journals as Twentieth-Century Literature, College Literature, Mosaic, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, and the Faulkner Journal, and he is the editor of Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury 2018).

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