| A Voice from Elsewhere Contributor(s): Blanchot, Maurice (Author), Mandell, Charlotte (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0791470164 ISBN-13: 9780791470169 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: Reflections on the enigma and secret of "literature." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | European - French - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 843.912 |
| LCCN: 2006032534 |
| Series: SUNY Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.11" W x 7.99" (0.36 lbs) 156 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Voice from Elsewhere represents one of Maurice Blanchot's most important reflections on the enigma and secret of "literature." The essays here bear down on the necessity and impossibility of witnessing what literature transmits, and--like Beckett and Kafka--on what one might call the "default" of language, the tenuous border that binds writing and silence to each other. In addition to considerations of René Char, Paul Celan, and Michel Foucault, Blanchot offers a sustained encounter with the poems of Louis-René des Forêts and, throughout, a unique and important concentration on music--on the lyre and the lyric, meter and measure--which poetry in particular brings before us. |