| The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me Contributor(s): Blanchot, Maurice (Author) |
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ISBN: 0882681516 ISBN-13: 9780882681511 Publisher: Station Hill Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92-19395 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.9" W x 8.7" (0.35 lbs) 94 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fiction. Translated from the French by Lydia Davis. This work takes the form of a conversation, an interview. An obsessive questioning back and forth builds up Blanchot's narrative, with its sense--shared with Kafka's famous doorkeeper parable--that behind each question lies the spooky possibility of a further, more imposing, more insoluble question. Thematically, powerlessness, inertia, insufficient speech, weariness, falling, faltering--everything tied to a negative or nonexistent value in ordinary discourse--is given value here by its being articulated, moved into writing and thought. What's insignificant or worthless gathers weight through its troubling persistence, its failure to disappear. The endless conversation of Blanchot's writing turns fiction toward an experience of listening--a far cry from the storytelling most fiction (still) takes itself to be. |
Contributor Bio(s): Blanchot, Maurice: - Maurice Blanchot is one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in modern French writing. His work encompasses the writing of novels and r |