Clandestine Encounters

Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-268-03092-6
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Maurice 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 Lautreamont, 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.

In Clandestine Encounters, 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 Candide in 1759, and best known through the works of Sartre. Clandestine Encounters considers a selection of Blanchot's narrative writings over the course of almost sixty years, from stories written in the mid-1930s to L'instant de ma mort (1994). Collectively, the contributors' close readings of Blanchot's novels, récits, and stories illuminate the close relationship between philosophy and narrative in his work while underscoring the variety and complexity of these narratives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hart, Kevin

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia. He is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including Young Rain (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009).