Approaching Disappearance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564788085)

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-Ren? Des For?ts, and Nathalie Sarraute.

Author: Anne McConnell
ISBN-10: 1564788083
ISBN-13: 9781564788085
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2013
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.60d