Approaching Disappearance
1st Edition
Published on 5. March 2013
240 pages
978-1-56478-841-2 (ISBN)
Description
Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictions that reflect on the complexities of literary work. His description of writing continually returns to a number of themes, such as solitude, passivity, indifference, anonymity, and absence-forces confronting the writer, but also the reader, the text itself, and the relations between the three. For Blanchot, literature involves a movement toward disappearance, where one risks the loss of self; but such a sacrifice, says Blanchot, is inherent in the act of writing. Approaching Disappearance explores the question of disappearance in Blanchot's critical work and then turns to five narratives that offer a unique reflection on the threat of disappearance and the demands of literature-work by Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Louis-René Des Forêts, and Nathalie Sarraute.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Approaching Disappearance
- 2. Franz Kafka and the Disappearance of the Writer
- 3. Lost in the Labyrinth: Jorge Luis Borges's "The Garden of Forking Paths"
- 4. The Disappearing Act of Louis-René des Forêts's Bavard
- 5. Anonymity and the Neutral in Nathalie Sarraute's Tropisms
- 6. Into the Night: Blanchot's L'arrêt de mort
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Copyright
