Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 393 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in French
Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 393 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in French
ISBN: 978-0-521-03235-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
In this book, which includes a substantial introduction and several unpublished essays, Jeffrey Mehlman confronts the politically devastating resonances in the work of several leading French writers. The essays focus on the series of enigmas surrounding the 'Blanchot affair' - a scandal provoked by Mehlman's revelation in 1977 that Maurice Blanchot, one of the tutelary figures of contemporary French thought, had in the 1930s been a prominent fascist journalist. Mehlman takes the issue of Blanchot's forgotten political essays deep into the most revered - and misunderstood - of his novels, L'Arrêt de mort. Using this affair as a point of departure, Mehlman sheds light on the question of the usability of psychoanalysis for literary readings (examining, for example, Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Valéry); he also investigates the ideological and political connotations of similar literary and theoretical material. The volume as a whole provides a consistently provocative meditation on literature, ethics, and the experience of the French in World War II.
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Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Craniometry and criticism: notes on a Valéryan criss-cross; 3. Literature and hospitality: Klossowski's Hamann; 4. Literature and collaboration: Benoist-Méchin's return to Proust; 5. 'Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote' again; 6. Iphigenia 38: deconstruction, history and the case of L'Arrêt de mort; 7. Writing and deference: the politics of literary adulation; 8. Perspectives: on Paul de Man and Le Soir; 9. Prosopopeia revisited; 10. The paranoid style in French prose: Lacan with Léon Bloy; 11. The Holocaust comedies of 'Emile Ajar'; 12. Pour Sainte-Beuve: Maurice Blanchot, 10 March 1942; 13. Flowers of evil: Paul Morand, the Collaboration and literary history; Appendix; Notes; Index; Series list.
