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  <default_description>Maurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory. Two of his most ambitious nonfiction works, The Space of Literature and The Writing of the Disaster, are also available from the University of Nebraska Press, as is The Most High, his third novel. John Gregg is the author of Maurice Blanchot and the Literature of Transgression.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought when I got this book, oh it's just 80 pages or so and I'll be done in a day or two. On the contrary, it has taken me months to read. Every paragraph is dense and thorny; once I've gotten through a few pages I need to digest for a week or two. Each word weighs heavy: every sentence incredib...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2768949">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Blanchot does an amazing job of writing about silence. Reading this book connected me to my own process of thinking and speaking. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read parts of this book while waiting for someone.  It made me aware of the wait and how the wait sometimes becomes the event.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i like it when translators give you a heads up about untranslatable puns.  that's all i have to say for now.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 09 11:52:47 -0700 2008</read_at>
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