Maurice Blanchot





Maurice Blanchot

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born
September 22, 1907 in Devrouze, France

died
February 20, 2003

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Maurice Blanchot (September 27, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher, literary theorist and writer of fiction. Blanchot was a distinctly modern writer who broke down generic boundaries, particularly between literature and philosophy. He began his career on the political right, but the experience of fascism altered his thinking to the point that he supported the student protests of May 1968. Like so many members of his generation, Blanchot was influenced by Alexandre Kojeve's humanistic interpretation of Hegel and the rise of modern existentialism influenced by Heidegger and Sartre. His Literature and the Right to Death shows the influence that Heidegger had on a whole generation of French int...more


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The Writing of the Disaster
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Death Sentence
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Thomas the Obscure
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Infinite Conversation
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Station Hill Blanchot Reader
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The Madness of the Day
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Awaiting Oblivion
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Unavowable Community
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More books by Maurice Blanchot…
“A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.”
Maurice Blanchot

“There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.”
Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature: A Translation of L'Espace Littéraire

“Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.”
Maurice Blanchot, Step Not Beyond

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