{"product_id":"clandestine-encounters-kevin-hart-9780268030926","title":"Clandestine Encounters: Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaurice Blanchot is perhaps best known as a major French intellectual of the twentieth century: the man who countered Sartre's views on literature, who affirmed the work of Sade and Lautréamont, who gave eloquent voice to the generation of '68, and whose philosophical and literary work influenced the writing of, among others, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault. He is also regarded as one of the most acute narrative writers in France since Marcel Proust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eClandestine Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e, Kevin Hart has gathered together major literary critics in Britain, France, and the United States to engage with Blanchot's immense, fascinating, and difficult body of creative work. Hart's substantial introduction usefully places Blanchot as a significant contributor to the tradition of the French philosophical novel, beginning with Voltaire's \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e in 1759, and best known through the works of Sartre. \u003ci\u003eClandestine Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e considers a selection of Blanchot's narrative writings over the course of almost sixty years, from stories written in the mid-1930s to \u003ci\u003eL'instant de ma mort\u003c\/i\u003e (1994). Collectively, the contributors' close readings of Blanchot's novels, recits, and stories illuminate the close relationship between philosophy and narrative in his work while underscoring the variety and complexity of these narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Christophe Bident, Arthur Cools, Thomas S. Davis, Christopher Fynsk, Rodolphe Gasché, Kevin Hart, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland, Stephen E. Lewis, Vivian Liska, Caroline Sheaffer-Jones, Christopher A. Strathman, Alain Toumayan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Hart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268030928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268030926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Kevin Hart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48013711016191,"sku":"9780268030926","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6d3c6241-695f-47d5-8fee-2fdfbd1d82ea.jpg?v=1767744288","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/clandestine-encounters-kevin-hart-9780268030926","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}