Published in France in 1943, Faux Pas is the first collection of Maurice Blanchot's essays on literature and language, consisting of fifty-four short pieces that were originally issued as reviews in literary journals, and one long introductory meditation...
A Voice from Elsewhere represents one of Maurice Blanchots most important reflections on the enigma and secret of "literature." The essays here bear down on the necessity and impossibility of witnessing what literature transmits, and-like Beckett...
During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substanc...
Die "Gemeinschaft" wird in modernen Gesellschaften entweder nostalgisch beschworen oder als endgültiger Verlust beklagt. Was aber ist unter "Gemeinschaft" zu verstehen? Blanchot geht dieser Frage nach und errichtet die Idee einer...
"En los ensayos reunidos en este libro, subyace una preocupación por rescatar de entre los elocuentes silencios que Kafka resguarda tras las palabras la verdadera esencia de la escritura: un combate cotidiano en favor de la afirmación...
The world of Aminadab, Maurice Blanchot's second novel, is dark, bizarre, and fantastic. Reminiscent of Kafka's enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction of power, authority, and hierarchy. The novel...
This new reader from Station Hill (Blanchots longtime publisher in the United States) is six books in one, and the first and only collection of Maurice Blanchots celebrated fiction and critical/philosophical writing. Regarded both on the European continen...
THE UNAVOWABLE COMMUNITY is an inquiry into the nature and possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community of individuals that is truly communal. The problem, for Blanchot, is that the very terms of an ideal community make an avowal of...
Talks about the enigmatic condition of a man and woman alone in a sparsely furnished hotel room who try to remember what has happened to bring them there as they apprehensively await whatever will happen next. This is a reflection upon human nature, langu...
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...
This book is a translation of Maurice Blanchot's work that is of major importance to late 20th-century literature and philosophy studies. Using the fragmentary form, Blanchot challenges the boundaries between the literary and the philosophical. With...