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Faux pas / Maurice Blanchot ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
LIBRA - Special PN71 .B57413 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blanchot, Maurice.
- Series:
- Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
- Meridian, crossing aesthetics
- Standardized Title:
- Faux pas. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 309 pages, 11 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Published in France in 1943, "Faux Pas" is the first collection of essays on literature and language by Maurice Blanchot, the most lucid and powerful French critic of the second half of the 20th century.
- Contents:
- Kierkegaard's Journals
- Master Eckhart
- The marriage of heaven and hell
- On Hindu thought
- Inner experience
- The experience of Proust
- Rilke
- The myth of Sisyphus
- The myth of Orestes
- The myth of Phaedra
- The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
- How is literature possible?
- Studies on language
- Literature
- The silence of Mallarmé
- Is Mallarmé's poetry obscure?
- Bergson and symbolism
- Poetics
- The baroque poets of the seventeenth century
- Reflections on the new poetry
- Involuntary poetry
- Poetry and language
- After Rimbaud
- Léon-Paul Fargue and poetic creation
- Lamartine's position
- An edition of Flowers of evil
- Mallarmé and the art of the novel
- Lautréamont
- The art of the novel in Balzac
- The new novel
- The enigma of the novel
- The birth of a myth
- Mythological novels
- The novel and poetry
- Poetry and the novel
- Translated from silence
- The novel of the stranger
- The angel of the bizarre
- Chaminadour
- The novel and morality
- The secret of Melville
- Interior monologue
- Time and the novel
- A work by Ernst Jünger
- Molière
- Stendhal and sensitive souls
- Goethe and Eckermann
- André Gide and Goethe
- The solitude of Péguy
- The criticism of Albert Thibaudet
- A work by Paul Claudel
- On the subject of The fruits of the earth
- Alain's thinking
- On insolence considered as one of the fine arts.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisements: [3] p. at end.
- ISBN:
- 0804729344
- 0804729352
- OCLC:
- 45100391
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