Writing of the Disaster

Name: Writing of the Disaster
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ISBN: 9780803261204

ISBN-10: 0803261209

ISBN-13: 9780803261204

Edition: 1995

Authors: Maurice Blanchot, Ann Smock, Maurice Blanchot

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Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century—world 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 Disasterreflects 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…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 5/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 153
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396

Maurice Blanchot, 1907 - Novelist and critic Maurice Blanchot was born in 1907. Some of his works in translation include "Death Sentence" (1978), "The Gaze of Orpheus" (1981), "Madness of the Day" (1988), "The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me" (1993), all of which were translated by Lydia Davis, and "Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him" (translated by Jeffrey Mehlman, 1987).