20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
A World in Ruins
Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943
Maurice Blanchot, Translated by Michael Holland
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In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war. Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this gradually improving situation was one of widespread and unremitting destruction._x000B__x000B_In the essays from that year, Blanchot writes from a position of almost total detachment from day-to-day events, now that all of his projects and involvements have come to naught. As he explores and promotes works of literature and ideas, he privileges those with the capacity to sustain a human perspective that does not merely contemplate ruin and disaster but sees them as the occasion for a radical revision of what “human” is capable of signifying._x000B__x000B_Consigning all that the name “France” has hitherto meant to him to a past that is now in ruins, Blanchot begins to sketch out a counter-history that is international in nature, and whose human field is literature.
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Author Biography
Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003)—writer, critic, and journalist—was one of the most important voices in twentieth-century literature and thought.
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- Publisher Fordham University Press
- Publication Date February 2016
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780823267262
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 39 USD
- Pages304
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
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