| A World in Ruins: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943 Contributor(s): Blanchot, Maurice (Author), Holland, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0823267253 ISBN-13: 9780823267255 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - History | Modern - 20th Century - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 848.912 |
| LCCN: 2015006038 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war. Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this gradually improving situation was one of widespread and unremitting destruction. In the essays from that year, Blanchot writes from a position of almost total detachment from day-to-day events, now that all of his projects and involvements have come to naught. As he explores and promotes works of literature and ideas, he privileges those with the capacity to sustain a human perspective that does not merely contemplate ruin and disaster but sees them as the occasion for a radical revision of what "human" is capable of signifying. Consigning all that the name "France" has hitherto meant to him to a past that is now in ruins, Blanchot begins to sketch out a counter-history that is international in nature, and whose human field is literature. |
Contributor Bio(s): Blanchot, Maurice: - Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003)--writer, critic, and journalist--was one of the most important voices in twentieth-century literature and thought. His books include Thomas the Obscure, The Instant of my Death, The Writing of the Disaster, and The Unavowable Community.Holland, Michael: - Michael Holland is a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. |