LEADER 07109nam 2200553 450 001 9910813362503321 005 20230817190958.0 010 $a0-8232-8482-4 010 $a0-8232-8177-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000007132981 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5573371 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002046507 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5573371 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11630267 035 $a(OCoLC)1064999497 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007132981 100 $a20220526d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaurice Blanchot $ea critical biography /$fChristophe Bident ; translated by John McKeane 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (438 pages) 225 1 $aFordham scholarship online 300 $aTranslated from the French. 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a0-8232-8176-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- MAURICE BLANCHOT -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Translator's Note -- Preface -- Part I 1907-1923 -- 1. Blanchot of Quain: Genealogy, Birth, Childhood (1907-1918) -- 2. Music and Family Memory: Marguerite Blanchot in Chalon (1920s) -- 3. The Fedora of Death: Illness (1922-1923) -- Part II 1920s-1940 -- 4. The Walking Stick with the Silver Pommel: The University of Strasbourg (1920s) -- 5. A Flash in the Darkness: Meeting Emmanuel Levinas (1925-1930) -- 6. There Is: Philosophical Apprenticeship (1927-1930) -- 7. Aligning One's Convictions: Paris and Far-Right Circles (1930s) -- 8. "Mahatma Gandhi": A First Text by Blanchot (1931) -- 9. Refusal, I. The Revolution of Spirit: La Revue Franc?aise, Re?action, and La Revue du Sie?cle (1931-1934) -- 10. Journalist, Opponent of Hitler, National-Revolutionary: Le Journal des De?bats, Le Rempart, Aux E?coutes, and La Revue du Vingtie?me Sie?cle (1931-1935) -- 11. The Escalation of Rhetoric: The Launch of Combat (1936) -- 12. Terrorism as a Method of Public Safety: Combat ( July-December 1936) -- 13. Patriotism's Breaking Point: L'Insurge? (1937) -- 14. These Events Happened to Me in 1937: Death Sentences (1937-1938) -- 15. On the Transformation of Convictions: A Journalist of the Far Right (1930s) -- 16. From Revolution to Literature: Literary Criticism (1930s) -- 17. Murderous Omens of Times to Come-Writing the Re?cits: "The Last Word" and "The Idyll" (1935-1936) -- 18. Night Freely Recircled, Which Plays Us: Thomas the Obscure (1932-1940) -- Part III 1940 -1949 -- 19. The Universe Is to Be Found in Night: Resistance (1940-1944) -- 20. Using Vichy against Vichy: Jeune France (1941-1942) -- 21. Admiration and Agreement: Meeting Georges Bataille (1940-1943) -- 22. In the Name of the Other: Literary Chronicles at the Journal des De?bats (1941-1944). 327 $a23. A True Writer Has Appeared: The Publication and Reception of Thomas the Obscure (1941-1942) -- 24. Lift This Fog Which Is Already of the Dawn: The Publication of Aminadab (1942) -- 25. Writers Who Have Given Too Much to the Present: NRF Circles (1941-1942) -- 26. From Anguish to Language: The Publication of Faux pas (1943) -- 27. The Prisoner of the Eyes That Capture Him: Quain (Summer 1944) -- 28. The Disenchantment of the Community: Editorial Activity after Liberation (1944 -1946) -- 29. The Year of Criticism: L'Arche, Les Temps Modernes, and Critique (1946) -- 30. Respecting Scandal: Literary Criticism (1945-1948) -- 31. The Black Stain: Writing The Most High (1946-1947) -- 32. The Passion of Silence: Denise Rollin (1940s) -- 33. The Mediterranean Sojourn: The Writing of the Night (1947) -- 34. Something Inflexible: The Madness of the Day, a New Status for Speech (1947-1949) -- 35. The Turn of the Screw: The Second Version of Thomas the Obscure (1947-1948) -- 36. The Authority of Friendship: The Completion of Death Sentence (1947-1948) -- 37. Quarrels in the Literary World: Publication and Reception (1948-1949) -- Part IV 1949-1959 -- 38. Invisible Partner: E?ze, Withdrawal (1949-1957) -- 39. The Essential Solitude: Writing the Re?cits (1949-1953) -- 40. The Radiance of a Blind Power: When the Time Comes (1949-1951) -- 41. Are You Writing, Are You Writing Even Now? The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me (1951-1953) -- 42. The Critical Detour: A Few Articles of Literary Criticism (1950-1951) -- 43. The Author in Reverse: The Birth of The Space of Literature (1951-1953) -- 44. Always Already (The Poetic and Political Interruption of Thought): Toward The Book to Come (1953-1958) -- 45. Of an Amazing Lightness: The Last Man (1953-1957) -- 46. Grace, Strength, Gentleness: Meeting Robert Antelme (1958). 327 $a47. In the Gaze of Fascination: The Return to Paris (1957-1958) -- 48. Refusal, II. In the Name of the Anonymous: The 14 Juillet Project (1958-1959) -- Part V 1960-1968 -- 49. Note That I Say "Right" and Not "Duty": The Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War (1960) -- 50. Invisible Partners: The Project for the International Review (1960-1965) -- 51. Characters in Thought: How Is Friendship Possible? (1958-1971) -- 52. Act in Such a Way That I Can Speak to You: Awaiting Oblivion (1957-1962) -- 53. The Thought of the Neuter: Literary and Philosophical Criticism-the Entretien and the Fragment (1959-1969) -- 54. A First Homage: The Special Issue of Critique (1966) -- 55. Between Two Forms of the Unavowable: The Beaufret Affair (1967-1968) -- 56. The Far Side of Fear: Political Disillusionment (May 1968) -- Part VI 1969-1997 -- 57. Life Outside: The Step Not Beyond, a Journal Written in the Neuter (1969-1973) -- 58. Friendship in Disaster: Distance, Disappearance (1974-1978) -- 59. The Last Book: The Writing of the Disaster (1974-1980) -- 60. Forming the Myth: Readings and Nonreadings (1969-1979) -- 61. Making the Secret Uncomfortable: Blanchot's Readability and Visibility (1979-1997) -- 62. With This Break in History Stuck in One's Throat: The Unavowable Community (1982-1983) -- 63. Even a Few Steps Take Time: Literature and Witnessing (1983-1997) -- Amor: Blanchot since 2003 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 8 $a'Maurice Blanchot' attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with those close to the writer. It tracks the life and work of one of the most important novelists and critics of the twentieth century, who influenced many writers, artists, and philosophers, not least those of French theory. 410 0$aFordham scholarship online. 606 $aAuthors, French$vBiography$y20th century 615 0$aAuthors, French 676 $a843.912 700 $aBident$b Christophe$f1962-$01300862 702 $aMcKeane$b John 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813362503321 996 $aMaurice Blanchot$94013307 997 $aUNINA