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A WORLD IN RUINS
CHRONICLES OF INTELLECTUAL LIFE, 1943 |
| By: |
Maurice Blanchot, Michael Holland (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£33.00 |
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£28.05 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0823267261 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780823267262 |
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| Publisher: |
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2016 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
This is the third volume of Maurice Blanchot's war-time Literary Chronicles. Written in 1943, they appeared during the darkest days of the war yet also at a time when real hope for victory was becoming possible. Against the grain of any simple optimism, Blanchot identifies in ruin and disaster a sign and a chance for a mode of human relation that will truly guarantee the future. |
| Synopsis: |
In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war. Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this gradually improving situation was one of widespread and unremitting destruction.In the essays from that year, Blanchot writes from a position of almost total detachment from day-to-day events, now that all of his projects and involvements have come to naught. As he explores and promotes works of literature and ideas, he privileges those with the capacity to sustain a human perspective that does not merely contemplate ruin and disaster but sees them as the occasion for a radical revision of what "human" is capable of signifying.Consigning all that the name "France" has hitherto meant to him to a past that is now in ruins, Blanchot begins to sketch out a counter-history that is international in nature, and whose human field is literature. |
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US |
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Fordham University Press |
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Returnable |
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