Friendship / Maurice Blanchot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanchot, Maurice, Author.

Series:

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. This collection of 29 critical essays and reviews on art, politics, literature, and philosophy documents the wide range of Blanchot's interests, from the enigmatic paintings in the Lascaux caves to the atomic era. Essays are devoted to works of fiction (Louis-René des Forêts, Pierre Klossowski, Roger Laporte, Marguerite Duras), to autobiographies or testimonies (Michel Leiris, Robert Antelme, André Gorz, Franz Kafka), or to authors who are more than ever contemporary (Jean Paulhan, Albert Camus). Several essays focus on questions of Judaism, as expressed in the works of Edmond Jabès, Emmanuel Levinas, and Martin Buber. Among the other topics covered are André Malraux's "imaginary museum," the Pléiade Encyclopedia project of Raymond Queneau, paperback publishing, the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Benjamin's "Task of the Translator," Marx and communism, writings on the Holocaust, and the difference between art and writing. The book concludes with an eloquent invocation to friendship on the occasion of the death of Georges Bataille.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

§ 1. The Birth of Art

§ 2. The Museum, Art, and Time

§ 3. Museum Sickness

§ 4. The Time of Encyclopedias

§ 5. Translating

§ 6. The Great Reducers

§ 7. Man at Point Zero

§ 8. Slow Obsequies

§ 9. On One Approach to Communism

§ 10. Marx's Three Voices

§ 11. The Apocalypse Is Disappointing

§ 12. War and Literature

§ 13. Refusal

§ 14. Destroy

§ 15. Idle Speech

§ 16. Battle with the Angel

§ 17. Dreaming, Writing

§ 18. The Ease of Dying

§ 19. The Laughter of the Gods

§ 20. A Note on Transgression

§ 21. The Detour Toward Simplicity

§ 22. The Fall: The Flight

§ 23. The Terror of Identification

§ 24. Traces

§ 25. Gog and Magog

§ 26. Kafka and Brod

§ 27. The Last Word

§ 28. The Very Last Word

§ 29. Friendship

Notes

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2044-1

OCLC:

1322124266