Thomas the Obscure

Name: Thomas the Obscure
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ISBN: 9780882680767

ISBN-10: 0882680765

ISBN-13: 9780882680767

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Maurice Blanchot, Robert Lamberton, Robert Lamberton

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Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the "new novel, " the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot's first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contains all the remarkable aspects of his famous and perplexing invention, "the ontological narrative"--a tale whose subject is the nature of being itself. This paradoxical work discovers being in the absence of being, mystery in the absence of mystery, both to be searched for limitlessly. As Blanchot launches this endless search in his own masterful way, he transforms the possibilities of the novel. First issued in English in 1973 in a limited edition, this…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill Press
Publication date: 1/6/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 124
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
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).