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Paperback / softback. New. The fourth volume of Blanchot's war-time chronicles reflects a commitment to silence and a detachment from circumstance, as Germany's occupation of France reaches its end. Convinced that disaster is now insuperable, Blanchot neutralizes the nihilism of that position through making it the basis of a new language of human relation.
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by Maurice Blanchot; Michael Holland (Translator)
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"The time has come to attend to Blanchot's early literary and political journalism (his missteps included) which, surprisingly, the first generation of his postwar admirers barely noted. It reminds us that this major theoretician of literary modernity has never been associated with academia: the newspaper was the site of his first critical exercise. Death Now provides a rich overview of the French literary atmosphere during the fateful final period of the Occupation. It is also unmistakably haunted by the ghost of a Blanchot to come."--Denis Hollier, New York University
By 1944, the days of Germany's domination of Europe are numbered, and defeat seems no more than a matter of time. In occupied France, there is renewed activity on the political and the cultural fronts, in anticipation of the liberation that now appears inevitable. Already the author of two novels and a volume of criticism, Maurice Blanchot is henceforth fully established as a major figure in what will soon be post-war France. Blanchot's position in this new order is problematical, however. Despite having discreetly supported the Resistance, he makes clear that his only true allegiance is to literature. Against the tide of his own emerging reputation, he is increasingly drawn to silence as the only valid response to what the world has become. For him, ruin cannot be reconstructed with the aid of literature, because ruin is the mode in which literature most authentically exists and with which the world has only now caught up. This grim and potentially nihilistic message seems to make Blanchot into little more than an anachronism in the emerging post-war world. Yet his attitude is the very opposite of aloofness. Silence becomes for him an intense search for a language commensurate with "circumstances that literature can still neither express directly nor distort". Beyond this volume, which completes the English publication of his wartime literary journalism, his writing over the next fifty years will patiently establish a margin in which new forms thought will offer themselves to a new age. 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.Details
- Title Death Now: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1944
- Author Maurice Blanchot; Michael Holland (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Fordham University Press
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780823281794 / 0823281795
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.4 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.02 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: French
- Library of Congress subjects Literature - History and criticism, France - Intellectual life - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018010817
- Dewey Decimal Code 848.912
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