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1 online resource (438 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Translator's Note; Preface; Part I 1907-1923; 1. Blanchot of Quain: Genealogy, Birth, Childhood (1907-1918); 2. Music and Family Memory: Marguerite Blanchot in Chalon (1920s); 3. The Fedora of Death: Illness (1922-1923); Part II 1920s-1940; 4. The Walking Stick with the Silver Pommel: The University of Strasbourg (1920s); 5. A Flash in the Darkness: Meeting Emmanuel Levinas (1925-1930); 6. There Is: Philosophical Apprenticeship (1927-1930); 7. Aligning One's Convictions: Paris and Far-Right Circles (1930s) |
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8. "Mahatma Gandhi": A First Text by Blanchot (1931)9. Refusal, I. The Revolution of Spirit: La Revue Française, Réaction, and La Revue du Siècle (1931-1934); 10. Journalist, Opponent of Hitler, National-Revolutionary: Le Journal des Débats, Le Rempart, Aux Écoutes, and La Revue du Vingtième Siècle (1931-1935); 11. The Escalation of Rhetoric: The Launch of Combat (1936); 12. Terrorism as a Method of Public Safety: Combat (July-December 1936); 13. Patriotism's Breaking Point: L'Insurgé (1937); 14. These Events Happened to Me in 1937: Death Sentences (1937-1938) |
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15. On the Transformation of Convictions: A Journalist of the Far Right (1930s)16. From Revolution to Literature: Literary Criticism (1930s); 17. Murderous Omens of Times to Come-Writing the Récits: "The Last Word" and "The Idyll" (1935-1936); 18. Night Freely Recircled, Which Plays Us: Thomas the Obscure (1932-1940); Part III 1940-1949; 19. The Universe Is to Be Found in Night: Resistance (1940-1944); 20. Using Vichy against Vichy: Jeune France (1941-1942); 21. Admiration and Agreement: Meeting Georges Bataille (1940-1943) |
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22. In the Name of the Other: Literary Chronicles at the Journal des Débats (1941-1944)23. A True Writer Has Appeared: The Publication and Reception of Thomas the Obscure (1941-1942); 24. Lift This Fog Which Is Already of the Dawn: The Publication of Aminadab (1942); 25. Writers Who Have Given Too Much to the Present: NRF Circles (1941-1942); 26. From Anguish to Language: The Publication of Faux pas (1943); 27. The Prisoner of the Eyes That Capture Him: Quain (Summer 1944); 28. The Disenchantment of the Community: Editorial Activity after Liberation (1944-1946) |
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29. The Year of Criticism: L'Arche, Les Temps Modernes, and Critique (1946)30. Respecting Scandal: Literary Criticism (1945-1948); 31. The Black Stain: Writing The Most High (1946-1947); 32. The Passion of Silence: Denise Rollin (1940s); 33. The Mediterranean Sojourn: The Writing of the Night (1947); 34. Something Inflexible: The Madness of the Day, a New Status for Speech (1947-1949); 35. The Turn of the Screw: The Second Version of Thomas the Obscure (1947-1948); 36. The Authority of Friendship: The Completion of Death Sentence (1947-1948) |
| Summary |
Maurice Blanchot: a Critical Biography attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with those close to the writer. It tracks the life and work of one of the most important novelists and critics of the twentieth century, who influenced many writers, artists, and philosophers, not least those of French theory |
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37. Quarrels in the Literary World: Publication and Reception (1948-1949) |
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In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Blanchot, Maurice
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| SUBJECT |
Blanchot, Maurice fast |
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Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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Authors, French
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
McKeane, John
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| ISBN |
9780823281770 |
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0823281779 |
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9780823281787 |
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0823281787 |
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