The work of fire / Maurice Blanchot ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanchot, Maurice.

Contributor:

Mandell, Charlotte.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Meridian, crossing aesthetics

Standardized Title:

Part du feu. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 344 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995.

Summary:

" A signal event for literary and cultural studies in the English-speaking world. As crucial essays on individual authors, as a major work of literary theory, as an important means of access to the 1940s in French culture, as an exemplary work combining reading and theory- it is of great importance to us today." - J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine " This collection of essays and reviews from the 1940s is about the ' fiery part' of literary language that burns through the aesthetic illusions and the easy referentiality of everyday language. . . . This collection is indepensable to any attempt to understand the years between Heidegger/Benjamin and Derrida/Man." - Choice

Contents:

Reading Kafka

Kafka and literature

The myth of Mallarmé

Mystery in literature

The paradox of Aytré

The language of fiction

Reflections on surrealism

René Char

The "sacred" speech of Hölderlin

Baudelaire's failure

The sleep of Rimbaud

From Lautrémont to Miller

Translated from ...

The novels of Sartre

A note on Malraux

Gide and the literature of experience

Adolphe, or the misfortune of true feelings

Gazes from beyond the grave

Pascal's hand

Valéry and Faust

On Nietzsche's side

Literature and the right to death.

Notes:

Publisher's advertisements: [1] p. at end.

ISBN:

0804724326

0804724938

OCLC:

31045952