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The Writing of the Disaster / L'Ecriture du Désastre
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The Writing of the Disaster / L'Ecriture du Désastre Softcover - 1995

by Blanchot, Maurice

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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Fine copy. 1995. Later prt.. softcover. 8vo, 152 pp., Translated by Ann Smock. .
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  • Title The Writing of the Disaster / L'Ecriture du Désastre
  • Author Blanchot, Maurice
  • Binding softcover
  • Edition Later prt.
  • Condition Used - Fine copy
  • Pages 170
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
  • Date 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS108101I
  • ISBN 9780803261204 / 0803261209
  • Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.96 x 5.27 x 0.43 in (20.22 x 13.39 x 1.09 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature - Philosophy, Blanchot, Maurice - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94046856
  • Dewey Decimal Code 848.912

From the rear cover

Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the centuryworld wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust - grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning? The Writing of the Disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disaster's infinite threat. First published in French in 1980, it takes up the most serious tasks of writing: to describe, explain and redeem when possible, and to admit what is not possible. Neither offers consolation. Maurice Blanchot has been praised on both sides of the Atlantic for his fiction and criticism. The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas once remarked that Blanchot's writing is a "language of pure transcendence, without correlative". Literary theorist and critic Geoffrey Hartman remarked that Blanchot's influence on contemporary writers "cannot be overestimated".

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About the author

Ann Smock is a professor of French at the University of California at Berkeley. She has translated Blanchot's The Space of Literature, also available as a Bison Book. Jeffrey Mehlman, a professor of French at Boston University, is the author of many books and articles on twentieth-century France and French literature.

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