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

Blanchot, Maurice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0823267261 ISBN 13 : 9780823267262

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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 is a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823267261
• ISBN 13: 9780823267262
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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