Approaching Disappearance Contributor(s): McConnell, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564788083 ISBN-13: 9781564788085 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
Dewey: 843.912 |
LCCN: 2012049517 |
Series: Dalkey Archive Scholarly |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8" (0.60 lbs) 223 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictions that reflect on the complexities of literary work. His description of writing continually returns to a number of themes, such as solitude, passivity, indifference, anonymity, and absence-forces confronting the writer, but also the reader, the text itself, and the relations between the three. For Blanchot, literature involves a movement toward disappearance, where one risks the loss of self; but such a sacrifice, says Blanchot, is inherent in the act of writing. "Approaching Disappearance" explores the question of disappearance in Blanchot's critical work and then turns to five narratives that offer a unique reflection on the threat of disappearance and the demands of literature-work by Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Louis-Ren? Des For?ts, and Nathalie Sarraute. |