03705nam 22007935 450 991016495480332120191022022751.00-226-41406-X10.7208/9780226414232(CKB)3710000001063990(MiAaPQ)EBC4805184(StDuBDS)EDZ0001660435(DE-B1597)524051(OCoLC)972734320(DE-B1597)9780226414232(EXLCZ)99371000000106399020191022d2017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Bond of the Furthest Apart Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka /Sharon CameronChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]©20171 online resource (279 pages) illustrationsPreviously issued in print: 2017.0-226-41390-X 0-226-41423-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Animal Sentience: Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar -- 2. "Outside Christ": Dostoevsky's Joy -- 3. The Sight of Death in Tolstoy -- 4. Robert Bresson's Pathos -- 5. Kafka's No-Hope Spaces -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- IndexIn the French filmmaker Robert Bresson's cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The "bond" of Sharon Cameron's title refers to the astonishing connections found both within Bresson's films and across literary works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, whose visionary rethinkings of experience are akin to Bresson's in their resistance to all forms of abstraction and classification that segregate aspects of reality. Whether exploring Bresson's efforts to reassess the limits of human reason and will, Dostoevsky's subversions of Christian conventions, Tolstoy's incompatible beliefs about death, or Kafka's focus on creatures neither human nor animal, Cameron illuminates how the repeated juxtaposition of disparate, even antithetical, phenomena carves out new approaches to defining the essence of being, one where the very nature of fixed categories is brought into question. An innovative look at a classic French auteur and three giants of European literature, The Bond of the Furthest Apart will interest scholars of literature, film, ethics, aesthetics, and anyone drawn to an experimental venture in critical thought.BressonDostoevskyKafkaTolstoyaestheticcategoricalcounterpointethicalontologyLITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralbisacshBresson.Dostoevsky.Kafka.Tolstoy.aesthetic.categorical.counterpoint.ethical.ontology.Bresson.Dostoevsky.Kafka.Tolstoy.aesthetic.categorical.counterpoint.ethical.ontology.LITERARY CRITICISM / General.809Cameron Sharon, 700507DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910164954803321The Bond of the Furthest Apart2088670UNINA