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For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. This collection of 29 critical essays and reviews on art, politics, literature, and philosophy documents the wide range of Blanchot's interests, from the enigmatic paintings in the Lascaux caves to the atomic era. Essays are devoted to works of fiction (Louis-RenZ des For ts, Pierre Klossowski, Roger Laporte, Marguerite Duras), to autobiographies or testimonies (Michel Leiris, Robert Antelme, AndrZ Gorz, Franz Kafka), or to authors who are more than ever contemporary (Jean Paulhan, Albert Camus).
1. The birth of art 2. The museum, art and time 3. Museum sickness 4. The time of encyclopedias 5. Translating 6. The great reducers 7. Man at point zero 8. Slow obsequies 9. On one approach to communism 10. Marx's three voices 11. The apocalypse is disappointing 12. War and literature.
"This is an extraordinary work of criticism - literary, cultural, political - but also of writing. It manages to weave together an almost journalistic directness and clarity with a philosophical-theoretical meditation of tingling complexity. Its appearance is an event of considerable importance and of great excitement, not simply because many of the essays in this volume are of enormous significance by themselves, but because the style and concerns of the book make it of interest to a broader reading public as well as academics." - Thomas Keenan, Princeton University
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