Space of Literature

Name: Space of Literature
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ISBN: 9780803260924

ISBN-10: 080326092X

ISBN-13: 9780803260924

Edition: 1989

Authors: Maurice Blanchot, Ann Smock, Ann Smock, Maurice Blanchot

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Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers-among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international literary consciousness.The Space of Literature, first published in France in 1955, is central to the development of Blanchot's thought. In it he reflects on literature and the unique demand it makes upon our attention. Thus he explores the process of reading as well as the nature of artistic creativity, all the while considering the relation of the literary work to time, to history, and to death. This book consists not so much in the…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 12/1/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 279
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

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).



Translator's Introduction


The Essential Solitude I



Approaching Literature's Space


Mallarmï¿½'s Experience


The Work's Space and Its Demand III


The Work and the Errant Word


Kafka and the Work's Demand



The Work and Death's Space


Death as Possibility


The Igitur Experience


Rilke and Death's Demand



Inspiration


The Outside, the Night


Orpheus's Gaze


Inspiration, Lack of Inspiration



Communication and the Work


Reading


Communication



Literature and the Original Experience


The Future and the Question of Art


Characteristics of the Work of Art


The Original Experience


Appendixes


Index