Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Quasha, George
2. Davis, Lydia, 1947-
3. Auster, Paul, 1947-
4. Lamberton, Robert
5. Fynsk, Christopher, 1952-
6. Stein, Charles, 1944-

Description

1. xxv, 526 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Uniform title

1. Works. Selections. English. 1999

Alternative title

1. Works. 1999

Subject

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc
2. Blanchot, Maurice > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. The idyll -- The last word -- Thomas the obscure -- Death sentence -- The madness of the day -- When the time comes -- The one who was standing apart from me -- From dread to language -- Literature and the right to death -- The essential solitude -- Two versions of the imaginary -- Reading -- The gaze of Orpheus -- The song of the sirens -- The power and the glory -- The narrative voice -- The absence of the book -- After the fact.

Call number

1. JFE 99-4689

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Blanchot, Maurice.

Title

1. The Station Hill Blanchot reader : fiction & literary essays / Maurice Blanchot ; translated by Lydia Davis, Paul Auster, & Robert Lamberton ; foreword by Christopher Fynsk ; afterword by George Quasha & Charles Stein ; edited by George Quasha.

Imprint

1. Barrytown, N.Y. : Station Hill/Barrytown, Ltd., ©1999.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Quasha, George, editor, writer of afterword.
2. Davis, Lydia, 1947- translator.
3. Auster, Paul, 1947- translator.
4. Lamberton, Robert, translator.
5. Fynsk, Christopher, 1952- writer of foreword.
6. Stein, Charles, 1944- writer of afterword.

LCCN

1. 98026242

ISBN

1. 1886449171
2. 9781886449176

Research call number

1. JFE 99-4689
2. ReCAP 12-41580