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A World in Ruins: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943 - Softcover

 
9780823267262: A World in Ruins: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0823267261 ISBN 13: 9780823267262
Verlag: FORDHAM UNIV PR, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war. Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this gradually improving situation was one of widespread and unremitting destruction.

In the essays from that year, Blanchot writes from a position of almost total detachment from day-to-day events, now that all of his projects and involvements have come to naught. As he explores and promotes works of literature and ideas, he privileges those with the capacity to sustain a human perspective that does not merely contemplate ruin and disaster but sees them as the occasion for a radical revision of what “human” is capable of signifying.

Consigning all that the name “France” has hitherto meant to him to a past that is now in ruins, Blanchot begins to sketch out a counter-history that is international in nature, and whose human field is literature.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.



Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003)--writer, critic, and journalist--was one of the most important voices in twentieth-century literature and thought.

Michael Holland is a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature. He is the author of The Blanchot Reader and of numerous studies of Blanchot's work in both English and French.

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Verlag
FORDHAM UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0823267261
ISBN 13 
9780823267262
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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