To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own...
Maurice Blanchot has written only infrequently about his life. He has refused to be photographed, interviewed, or seen. This extreme discretion marks a body of writing that has touched everything of importance in modern European philosophy and...
In both his fiction and criticism Maurice Blanchot, since the 1940s, has figured as one of the great austere voices of French letters. In works that have done more than any others to render in French prose a sensibility that might be described as late...
Blanchot, Maurice(1907–2003) Maurice Blanchot was first and foremost a literary theorist, and his work included a number of essay collections, among them The Space of Literature (1982), The Book to Come (2003), and Friendship (1997). He also...
Maurice Blanchot (September 22, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Works His influence on...
MAURICE BLANCHOT, WHO died on Feb. 20 at 95, is the most influential writer you've never heard of. The author of some 10 major works of fiction and as many of literary criticism and theory, Blanchot is not well-known in the United States, partly...
Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing. Ed. by CAROLYN BAILEY GILL. (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) London and New York: Routledge. 1996. xiii + 234 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. With this book, Carolyn Bailey Gill has edited another comprehensive collection of critical essays,...
In the following essay, Fynsk examines the ambiguous nature of language, the function of literature, and the negative dialectic of death expressed in “Literature and the Right to Death.”
In the following essay, Quasha and Stein consider Blanchot's writings in an American context and discuss the difficulty of translating, reading, and interpreting his texts, particularly in light of their poetic openness and prophetic quality.
