Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Quasha, George
2. Davis, Lydia
3. Auster, Paul, 1947-
4. Lamberton, Robert
5. Davis, Lydia, 1947-

Description

1. xxv, 526 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "The Station Hill Blanchot Reader is the only collection in English of Maurice Blanchot's mature fiction - the unique genre he called recits (tellings, narratives) - as well as a selection of literary/philosophical writings drawn from five of his major works. It brings together seven of Blanchot's eight Station Hill books published over the past twenty years: Vicious Circles, Thomas the Obscure, Death Sentence, The Madness of the Day, When The Time Comes, The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me, and ten of the eleven essays from The Gaze of Orpheus and Other Literary Essays."--Jacket.

Uniform title

1. Works. Selections. English. 1999

Alternative title

1. Works. 1999

Subject

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain