Awaiting Oblivion (French Modernist Library Series)
by Maurice Blanchot
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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 incredibly precise and yet managing to float in some nether region of language, beyond silence. Truthfully, I have 20 more pages to plow through, but I don't know if I can take any more loss.
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Read in January, 2007
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.
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Read in June, 2007
Blanchot does an amazing job of writing about silence. Reading this book connected me to my own process of thinking and speaking.
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i like it when translators give you a heads up about untranslatable puns. that's all i have to say for now.
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Read in March, 2008
phew, this is a toughie.
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