Thomas the Obscure

By Maurice Blanchot (original French), Translated by Robert Lamberton

Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot’s first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contains all the remarkable aspects of his famous and perplexing invention, the ontological narrative–a tale whose subject is the nature of being itself. This paradoxical work discovers being in t...