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Maurice Blanchot (1907--2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictions that reflect on the complexities of literary work. His description of writing continually returns to a number of themes, such as solitude, passivity, indifference, anonymity, and absence--forces confronting the writer, but also the reader, the text itself, and the relations between the three. For Blanchot, literature involves a movement toward disappearance, where one risks the loss of self; but such a sacrifice, says Blanchot, is inherent in the act of writing. Approaching Disappearance explores the question of disappearance in Blanchot's critical work and then turns to five narratives that offer a unique reflection on the threat of disappearance and the demands of literature--work by Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Louis-Rene Des Forets, and Nathalie Sarraute.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Approaching Disappearance
• Author: Anne McConnell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781564788085
• ISBN: 1564788083
• ID: 04813921
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Weight: 294 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 146 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. March 2013

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