Maurice Blanchot The Work of Fire (Hardback) Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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Further Details Title: The Work of Fire Condition: New Author: Maurice Blanchot Translator: Charlotte Mandell Contributor: Charlotte Mandell (Translated by) Format: Hardback EAN: 9780804724326 ISBN: 9780804724326 Publisher: Stanford University Press Genre: Literary Criticism Release Date: 03/01/1995 Description: Since the middle of the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. Blanchot early developed a distinctive, limpid firm of essay writing, and, apart from his fiction, his main work has appeared as collections of essays. His essays, in form and substance, unmistakably left their imprint on the work of the most inluential of French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, for example, are hardly imaginable without Blanchot, and, indeed, all three have generously paid tribute to him. Published in French in 1949, The Work of Fire is a collection of 22 essays originally issued as review essays in literary journals. Certain themes return again and again: the relation of literature and language to death; the sigificance of repetition; the historical, personal, and social function of literature; and perhaps most important, simply the question, What is at stake in the fact that something such as art or literature exists? Within each essay, Blanchot raises anew these central th

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Year: 1995
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780804724326
• Condition: Fine

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