Die "Gemeinschaft" wird in modernen Gesellschaften entweder nostalgisch beschworen oder als endgültiger Verlust beklagt. Was aber ist unter "Gemeinschaft" zu verstehen? Blanchot geht dieser Frage nach und errichtet die Idee einer...
The world of Aminadab, Maurice Blanchot's second novel, is dark, bizarre, and fantastic. Reminiscent of Kafka's enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction of power, authority, and hierarchy. The novel...
and , trans. When we come to write the history of criticism for the 1940 to 1980 period, it will be found that Blanchot, together with Sartre, made French discourse possible, both in its relentlessness and its acuity.This selectionis exemplary for its...
This new reader from Station Hill (Blanchots longtime publisher in the United States) is six books in one, and the first and only collection of Maurice Blanchots celebrated fiction and critical/philosophical writing. Regarded both on the European continen...
Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchots first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contains all the remarkab...
THE UNAVOWABLE COMMUNITY is an inquiry into the nature and possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community of individuals that is truly communal. The problem, for Blanchot, is that the very terms of an ideal community make an avowal of...
Talks about the enigmatic condition of a man and woman alone in a sparsely furnished hotel room who try to remember what has happened to bring them there as they apprehensively await whatever will happen next. This is a reflection upon human nature, langu...
Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century-world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust-grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its...