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Maurice Blanchot A Critical Biography

Bident, Christophe
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780823281756
Publisert
2018-11-20
Utgiver
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Fordham University Press
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
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P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Heftet

Forfatter
Bident, Christophe
Oversetter
McKeane John

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Christophe Bident (Author)
Christophe Bident is Professor of Theater Studies at the University of Picardie Jules Verne. He is the author of works on Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes and Bernard-Marie Koltès.
John McKeane (Translator)
John McKeane is Lecturer in Modern French Literature at the University of Reading. He is the translator of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Adoration: the Deconstruction of Christianity II.

Maurice Blanchot A Critical Biography

Bident, Christophe
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
Bident, Christophe
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
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Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His novels, shorter narratives, literary criticism, and fragmentary texts exercised enormous influence over several generations of writers, artists, and philosophers. In works such as Thomas the Obscure, The Instant of my Death, The Writing of the Disaster, The Unavowable Community, Blanchot produced some of the most incisive statements of what it meant to experience the traumas and turmoils of the twentieth century. As a journalist and political activist, Blanchot had a public side that coexisted uneasily with an inclination to secrecy, a refusal of interviews and photographs, and a reputation for mysteriousness and seclusion. These public and private Blanchots came together in complicated ways at some of the twentieth century's most momentous occasions. He was among the public intellectuals participating in the May ’68 revolution in Paris and helped organize opposition to the Algerian war. During World War II, he found himself moments away from being executed by the Nazis. More controversially, he had been active in far-right circles in the ’30s. Now translated into English, Christophe Bident’s magisterial, scrupulous, much-praised critical biography provides the first full-length account of Blanchot’s itinerary, drawing on unpublished letters and on interviews with the writer’s close friends. But the book is both a biography and far more. Beyond filling out a life famous for its obscurity, Bident’s book will transform the way readers of Blanchot respond to this major intellectual figure by offering a genealogy of his thought, a distinctive trajectory that is at once imaginative and speculative, at once aligned with literary modernity and a close companion and friend to philosophy. The book is also a historical work, unpacking the ‘transformation of convictions’ of an author who moved from the far-right in the 1930s to the far-left in the 1950s and after. Bident’s extensive archival research explores the complex ways that Blanchot’s work enters into engagement with his contemporaries, making the book also a portrait of the circles in which he moved, which included friends such as Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. Finally, the book traces the strong links between Blanchot’s life and an oeuvre that nonetheless aspires to anonymity. Ultimately, Bident shows how Blanchot’s life itself becomes an oeuvre—becomes a literature that bears the traces of that life secretly. In its even-handed appraisal, Bident’s sophisticated reading of Blanchot’s life together with his work offers a much-needed corrective to the range of cruder accounts, whether from Blanchot’s detractors or from his champions, of a life too easily sensationalized. This definitive biography of a seminal figure of our time will be essential reading for anyone concerned with twentieth-century literature, thought, culture, and politics.
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Maurice Blanchot: a Critical Biography attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with those close to the writer. It tracks the life and work of one of the most important novelists and critics of the twentieth century, who influenced many writers, artists, and philosophers, not least those of French theory.
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Translator’s Note ix Preface xi Part I 1907–1923 1. Blanchot of Quain: Genealogy, Birth, Childhood (1907–1918) 3 2. Music and Family Memory: Marguerite Blanchot in Chalon (1920s) 10 3. The Fedora of Death: Illness (1922–1923) 13 Part II 1920s–1940 4. The Walking Stick with the Silver Pommel: The University of Strasbourg (1920s) 21 5. A Flash in the Darkness: Meeting Emmanuel Levinas (1925–1930) 24 6. There Is: Philosophical Apprenticeship (1927–1930) 29 7. Aligning One’s Convictions: Paris and Far-Right Circles (1930s) 34 8. “Mahatma Gandhi”: A First Text by Blanchot (1931) 41 9. Refusal, I. The Revolution of Spirit: La Revue Française, Réaction, and La Revue du Siècle (1931–1934) 44 10. Journalist, Opponent of Hitler, National- Revolutionary: Le Journal des Débats, Le Rempart, Aux Écoutes, and La Revue du Vingtième Siècle (1931–1935) 51 11. The Escalation of Rhetoric: The Launch of Combat (1936) 62 12. Terrorism as a Method of Public Safety: Combat ( July–December 1936) 67 13. Patriotism’s Breaking Point: L’Insurgé (1937) 71 14. These Events Happened to Me in 1937: Death Sentences (1937–1938) 82 15. On the Transformation of Convictions: A Journalist of the Far Right (1930s) 88 16. From Revolution to Literature: Literary Criticism (1930s) 91 17. Murderous Omens of Times to Come—Writing the Récits: “The Last Word” and “The Idyll” (1935–1936) 101 18. Night Freely Recircled, Which Plays Us: Thomas the Obscure (1932–1940) 111 Part III 1940 –1949 19. The Universe Is to Be Found in Night: Resistance (1940–1944) 121 20. Using Vichy against Vichy: Jeune France (1941–1942) 127 21. Admiration and Agreement: Meeting Georges Bataille (1940–1943) 135 22. In the Name of the Other: Literary Chronicles at the Journal des Débats (1941–1944) 145 23. A True Writer Has Appeared: The Publication and Reception of Thomas the Obscure (1941–1942) 160 24. Lift This Fog Which Is Already of the Dawn: The Publication of Aminadab (1942) 163 25. Writers Who Have Given Too Much to the Present: NRF Circles (1941–1942) 170 26. From Anguish to Language: The Publication of Faux pas (1943) 178 27. The Prisoner of the Eyes That Capture Him: Quain (Summer 1944) 182 28. The Disenchantment of the Community: Editorial Activity after Liberation (1944 –1946) 187 29. The Year of Criticism: L’Arche, Les Temps Modernes, and Critique (1946) 192 30. Respecting Scandal: Literary Criticism (1945–1948) 195 31. The Black Stain: Writing The Most High (1946–1947) 208 32. The Passion of Silence: Denise Rollin (1940s) 219 33. The Mediterranean Sojourn: The Writing of the Night (1947) 225 34. Something Inflexible: The Madness of the Day, a New Status for Speech (1947–1949) 229 35. The Turn of the Screw: The Second Version of Thomas the Obscure (1947–1948) 232 36. The Authority of Friendship: The Completion of Death Sentence (1947–1948) 235 37. Quarrels in the Literary World: Publication and Reception (1948–1949) 239 Part IV 1949–1959 38. Invisible Partner: Èze, Withdrawal (1949–1957) 245 39. The Essential Solitude: Writing the Récits (1949–1953) 248 40. The Radiance of a Blind Power: When the Time Comes (1949–1951) 254 41. Are You Writing, Are You Writing Even Now? The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me (1951–1953) 261 42. The Critical Detour: A Few Articles of Literary Criticism (1950–1951) 266 43. The Author in Reverse: The Birth of The Space of Literature (1951–1953) 271 44. Always Already (The Poetic and Political Interruption of Thought): Toward The Book to Come (1953–1958) 280 45. Of an Amazing Lightness: The Last Man (1953–1957) 290 46. Grace, Strength, Gentleness: Meeting Robert Antelme (1958) 297 47. In the Gaze of Fascination: The Return to Paris (1957–1958) 301 48. Refusal, II. In the Name of the Anonymous: The 14 Juillet Project (1958–1959) 303 Part V 1960 –1968 49. Note That I Say “Right” and Not “Duty”: The Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War (1960) 315 50. Invisible Partners: The Project for the International Review (1960–1965) 324 51. Characters in Thought: How Is Friendship Possible? (1958–1971) 336 52. Act in Such a Way That I Can Speak to You: Awaiting Oblivion (1957–1962) 342 53. The Thought of the Neuter: Literary and Philosophical Criticism—the Entretien and the Fragment (1959–1969) 349 54. A First Homage: The Special Issue of Critique (1966) 362 55. Between Two Forms of the Unavowable: The Beaufret Affair (1967–1968) 370 56. The Far Side of Fear: Political Disillusionment (May 1968) 375 Part VI 1969–1997 57. Life Outside: The Step Not Beyond, a Journal Written in the Neuter (1969–1973) 389 58. Friendship in Disaster: Distance, Disappearance (1974 –1978) 403 59. The Last Book: The Writing of the Disaster (1974 –1980) 406 60. Forming the Myth: Readings and Nonreadings (1969–1979) 416 61. Making the Secret Uncomfortable: Blanchot’s Readability and Visibility (1979–1997) 424 62. With This Break in History Stuck in One’s Throat: The Unavowable Community (1982–1983) 435 63. Even a Few Steps Take Time: Literature and Witnessing (1983–1997) 445 Amor: Blanchot since 2003 465 John McKeane Acknowledgments 479 Notes 481 Bibliography 599 Index 605
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An essential addition to the library of anyone seriously interested in Maurice Blanchot and the evolutions of literary and philosophical thinking in twentieth-century France.

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Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His novels, shorter narratives, literary criticism, and fragmentary texts exercised enormous influence over several generations of writers, artists, and philosophers. In works such as Thomas the Obscure, The Instant of my Death, The Writing of the Disaster, The Unavowable Community, Blanchot produced some of the most incisive statements of what it meant to experience the traumas and turmoils of the twentieth century. As a journalist and political activist, Blanchot had a public side that coexisted uneasily with an inclination to secrecy, a refusal of interviews and photographs, and a reputation for mysteriousness and seclusion. These public and private Blanchots came together in complicated ways at some of the twentieth century's most momentous occasions. He was among the public intellectuals participating in the May ’68 revolution in Paris and helped organize opposition to the Algerian war. During World War II, he found himself moments away from being executed by the Nazis. More controversially, he had been active in far-right circles in the ’30s. Now translated into English, Christophe Bident’s magisterial, scrupulous, much-praised critical biography provides the first full-length account of Blanchot’s itinerary, drawing on unpublished letters and on interviews with the writer’s close friends. But the book is both a biography and far more. Beyond filling out a life famous for its obscurity, Bident’s book will transform the way readers of Blanchot respond to this major intellectual figure by offering a genealogy of his thought, a distinctive trajectory that is at once imaginative and speculative, at once aligned with literary modernity and a close companion and friend to philosophy. The book is also a historical work, unpacking the ‘transformation of convictions’ of an author who moved from the far-right in the 1930s to the far-left in the 1950s and after. Bident’s extensive archival research explores the complex ways that Blanchot’s work enters into engagement with his contemporaries, making the book also a portrait of the circles in which he moved, which included friends such as Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. Finally, the book traces the strong links between Blanchot’s life and an oeuvre that nonetheless aspires to anonymity. Ultimately, Bident shows how Blanchot’s life itself becomes an oeuvre—becomes a literature that bears the traces of that life secretly. In its even-handed appraisal, Bident’s sophisticated reading of Blanchot’s life together with his work offers a much-needed corrective to the range of cruder accounts, whether from Blanchot’s detractors or from his champions, of a life too easily sensationalized. This definitive biography of a seminal figure of our time will be essential reading for anyone concerned with twentieth-century literature, thought, culture, and politics.
Les mer
Maurice Blanchot: a Critical Biography attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with those close to the writer. It tracks the life and work of one of the most important novelists and critics of the twentieth century, who influenced many writers, artists, and philosophers, not least those of French theory.
Les mer
Translator’s Note ix Preface xi Part I 1907–1923 1. Blanchot of Quain: Genealogy, Birth, Childhood (1907–1918) 3 2. Music and Family Memory: Marguerite Blanchot in Chalon (1920s) 10 3. The Fedora of Death: Illness (1922–1923) 13 Part II 1920s–1940 4. The Walking Stick with the Silver Pommel: The University of Strasbourg (1920s) 21 5. A Flash in the Darkness: Meeting Emmanuel Levinas (1925–1930) 24 6. There Is: Philosophical Apprenticeship (1927–1930) 29 7. Aligning One’s Convictions: Paris and Far-Right Circles (1930s) 34 8. “Mahatma Gandhi”: A First Text by Blanchot (1931) 41 9. Refusal, I. The Revolution of Spirit: La Revue Française, Réaction, and La Revue du Siècle (1931–1934) 44 10. Journalist, Opponent of Hitler, National- Revolutionary: Le Journal des Débats, Le Rempart, Aux Écoutes, and La Revue du Vingtième Siècle (1931–1935) 51 11. The Escalation of Rhetoric: The Launch of Combat (1936) 62 12. Terrorism as a Method of Public Safety: Combat ( July–December 1936) 67 13. Patriotism’s Breaking Point: L’Insurgé (1937) 71 14. These Events Happened to Me in 1937: Death Sentences (1937–1938) 82 15. On the Transformation of Convictions: A Journalist of the Far Right (1930s) 88 16. From Revolution to Literature: Literary Criticism (1930s) 91 17. Murderous Omens of Times to Come—Writing the Récits: “The Last Word” and “The Idyll” (1935–1936) 101 18. Night Freely Recircled, Which Plays Us: Thomas the Obscure (1932–1940) 111 Part III 1940 –1949 19. The Universe Is to Be Found in Night: Resistance (1940–1944) 121 20. Using Vichy against Vichy: Jeune France (1941–1942) 127 21. Admiration and Agreement: Meeting Georges Bataille (1940–1943) 135 22. In the Name of the Other: Literary Chronicles at the Journal des Débats (1941–1944) 145 23. A True Writer Has Appeared: The Publication and Reception of Thomas the Obscure (1941–1942) 160 24. Lift This Fog Which Is Already of the Dawn: The Publication of Aminadab (1942) 163 25. Writers Who Have Given Too Much to the Present: NRF Circles (1941–1942) 170 26. From Anguish to Language: The Publication of Faux pas (1943) 178 27. The Prisoner of the Eyes That Capture Him: Quain (Summer 1944) 182 28. The Disenchantment of the Community: Editorial Activity after Liberation (1944 –1946) 187 29. The Year of Criticism: L’Arche, Les Temps Modernes, and Critique (1946) 192 30. Respecting Scandal: Literary Criticism (1945–1948) 195 31. The Black Stain: Writing The Most High (1946–1947) 208 32. The Passion of Silence: Denise Rollin (1940s) 219 33. The Mediterranean Sojourn: The Writing of the Night (1947) 225 34. Something Inflexible: The Madness of the Day, a New Status for Speech (1947–1949) 229 35. The Turn of the Screw: The Second Version of Thomas the Obscure (1947–1948) 232 36. The Authority of Friendship: The Completion of Death Sentence (1947–1948) 235 37. Quarrels in the Literary World: Publication and Reception (1948–1949) 239 Part IV 1949–1959 38. Invisible Partner: Èze, Withdrawal (1949–1957) 245 39. The Essential Solitude: Writing the Récits (1949–1953) 248 40. The Radiance of a Blind Power: When the Time Comes (1949–1951) 254 41. Are You Writing, Are You Writing Even Now? The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me (1951–1953) 261 42. The Critical Detour: A Few Articles of Literary Criticism (1950–1951) 266 43. The Author in Reverse: The Birth of The Space of Literature (1951–1953) 271 44. Always Already (The Poetic and Political Interruption of Thought): Toward The Book to Come (1953–1958) 280 45. Of an Amazing Lightness: The Last Man (1953–1957) 290 46. Grace, Strength, Gentleness: Meeting Robert Antelme (1958) 297 47. In the Gaze of Fascination: The Return to Paris (1957–1958) 301 48. Refusal, II. In the Name of the Anonymous: The 14 Juillet Project (1958–1959) 303 Part V 1960 –1968 49. Note That I Say “Right” and Not “Duty”: The Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War (1960) 315 50. Invisible Partners: The Project for the International Review (1960–1965) 324 51. Characters in Thought: How Is Friendship Possible? (1958–1971) 336 52. Act in Such a Way That I Can Speak to You: Awaiting Oblivion (1957–1962) 342 53. The Thought of the Neuter: Literary and Philosophical Criticism—the Entretien and the Fragment (1959–1969) 349 54. A First Homage: The Special Issue of Critique (1966) 362 55. Between Two Forms of the Unavowable: The Beaufret Affair (1967–1968) 370 56. The Far Side of Fear: Political Disillusionment (May 1968) 375 Part VI 1969–1997 57. Life Outside: The Step Not Beyond, a Journal Written in the Neuter (1969–1973) 389 58. Friendship in Disaster: Distance, Disappearance (1974 –1978) 403 59. The Last Book: The Writing of the Disaster (1974 –1980) 406 60. Forming the Myth: Readings and Nonreadings (1969–1979) 416 61. Making the Secret Uncomfortable: Blanchot’s Readability and Visibility (1979–1997) 424 62. With This Break in History Stuck in One’s Throat: The Unavowable Community (1982–1983) 435 63. Even a Few Steps Take Time: Literature and Witnessing (1983–1997) 445 Amor: Blanchot since 2003 465 John McKeane Acknowledgments 479 Notes 481 Bibliography 599 Index 605
Les mer
An essential addition to the library of anyone seriously interested in Maurice Blanchot and the evolutions of literary and philosophical thinking in twentieth-century France.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780823281756
Publisert
2018-11-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Fordham University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Bident, Christophe
Oversetter
McKeane John

Om bidragsyterne

Christophe Bident (Author)
Christophe Bident is Professor of Theater Studies at the University of Picardie Jules Verne. He is the author of works on Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes and Bernard-Marie Koltès.
John McKeane (Translator)
John McKeane is Lecturer in Modern French Literature at the University of Reading. He is the translator of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Adoration: the Deconstruction of Christianity II.

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