Approaching Disappearance
Paperback or Softback 223 pages Mar 05, 2013
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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-Ren? Des For?ts, and Nathalie Sarraute.
- Author:
- Anne McConnell
- Publisher:
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date:
- Mar 05, 2013
- Number of pages:
- 223 pages
- Binding:
- Paperback or Softback
- ISBN-10:
- 1564788083
- ISBN-13:
- 9781564788085