Approaching Disappearance
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Word Count
55,750 words, Guess
Page Count
223 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26119381M
- ISBN-139781564788085
- OCLC Control Number783161379
- Library of Congress Control Number2012049517
Classifications
- LCCPQ2603.L3343 Z785 2013
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-Rene Des Forets, and Nathalie Sarraute"--provided by publisher.
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