The Writing of the Disaster Paperback - 1995
by Maurice Blanchot; Ann Smock (Translator)
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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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- Title The Writing of the Disaster
- Author Maurice Blanchot; Ann Smock (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Pages 153
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
- Date 1995-05-01
- 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)
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- Cultural Region: French
- Library of Congress subjects Literature - Philosophy, Blanchot, Maurice - Philosophy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94046856
- Dewey Decimal Code 848.912
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