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Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
Maurice Blanchot
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Description for Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
Paperback. Provides a unique perspective on cultural life during the German Occupation, & offers crucial insights into the mind and art of one of the most original writers in the second half of the twentieth century Translator(s): Holand, Michael. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSBH; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
These articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original developments in the postwar era, among writers such as Robbe-Grillet, Butor, Sarraute, and Duras, not to mention Blanchot himself. In addition Blanchot is receptive in his weekly column to the extraordinarily wide range of original writing and thinking that was produced during the dark years of occupation, in areas such as psychology, anthropology, ancient history, linguistics, and philosophy. A highly original doctrine of writing can be seen to develop in which, ... Read more
These articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original developments in the postwar era, among writers such as Robbe-Grillet, Butor, Sarraute, and Duras, not to mention Blanchot himself. In addition Blanchot is receptive in his weekly column to the extraordinarily wide range of original writing and thinking that was produced during the dark years of occupation, in areas such as psychology, anthropology, ancient history, linguistics, and philosophy. A highly original doctrine of writing can be seen to develop in which, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823251001
SKU
V9780823251001
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About Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot (Author) 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. Michael Holland (Translator) Michael Holland is a Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford. ... Read more
Reviews for Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
“Maurice Blanchot became the greatest literary critic in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. Here, though, in these early pieces, we find him as a reviewer. And what a reviewer he is! Things emerge in what is always a strange light,’ he writes. This is the light that literature casts, he comes to think. We read these ... Read more