Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003)
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About the Author
Maurice Blanchot, 1907 - Novelist and critic Maurice Blanchot was born in 1907. Some of his works in translation include "Death Sentence" (1978), "The Gaze of Orpheus" (1981), "Madness of the Day" (1988), "The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me" (1993), all of which were translated by Lydia Davis, show more and "Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him" (translated by Jeffrey Mehlman, 1987). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Maurice Blanchot
Foucault / Blanchot: Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside and Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him (1987) 95 copies
Revisions Number 3: Decadence of the Nude: Pierre Klossowski; La Decadence Du Nu (Revisions Series, 3) (2003) 15 copies
Oteye Adim Yok Otesi 1 copy
A inspiração 1 copy
ヘルダーリンの《聖なる》ことば 1 copy
El diálogo inconcluso 1 copy
カミュ論 1 copy
文学時評 1941-1944 1 copy
Eseji izbor 1 copy
Die Frist ein Bericht 1 copy
Blanchotovi obrazi 1 copy
De stem en het schrift 1 copy
Rene Char's Poetry 1 copy
Mai 68, rvolution par l'ide 1 copy
Eine Stimme von anderswo: Texte zu Louis-René des Forêts, René Char, Paul Celan und Michel Foucault (re.visionen,… (2015) 1 copy
バタイユ・ブランショ研究 — Author — 1 copy
Associated Works
Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings (1791) — Introduction, some editions — 1,231 copies
Oskar Kokoschka, Städteportraits : Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien in Zusammenarbeit mit der Oskar… (1986) — Contributor — 4 copies
無限 詩と詩論 39 特集「マラルメ」 — Contributor — 1 copy
ロートレアモン詩集 — Contributor — 1 copy
現代思想 1988年 08月号 特集・脳死 テクノロジーの限界 — Contributor — 1 copy
表象 14 特集:アポカリプスの表象/表象のアポカリプス — Contributor — 1 copy
詩と思想 1989年 03月号 — Contributor — 1 copy
ユリイカ 詩と批評 1985年 05月号 — Contributor — 1 copy
ユリイカ 1976年 6月臨時増刊号 (第8巻第7号) 総特集=シュルレアリスム — Contributor — 1 copy
夜想 1 〈マンディアルグ×ボナ〉 — Contributor — 1 copy
現象学研究 特別号 モーリス・メルロ・ポンティ — Contributor — 1 copy
白夜評論 1962年6月創刊号 — Contributor — 1 copy
ユリイカ 詩と批評 1971年 09月号 特集=ロートレアモン — Contributor — 1 copy
ユリイカ 詩と批評 1972年 02月号 特集=カミュ 地中海の神話 — Contributor — 1 copy
形成 第7号 — Contributor — 1 copy
形成 第8号 — Contributor — 1 copy
現代詩手帖 1983年 11月臨時増刊 寺山修司 — Contributor — 1 copy
ユリイカ 詩と批評 1991年 07月号 特集=ランボー 没後百年記念 — Contributor — 1 copy
現代思想 1982年 02月号 特集=バタイユ — Contributor — 1 copy
現代思想 1974年 06月号 特集=ニーチェ 虚無を直視する真昼の思想 — Contributor — 1 copy
白夜評論 1962年7月号 — Contributor — 1 copy
現代詩手帖 1978年 10月臨時増刊号 モーリス・ブランショ — Contributor — 1 copy
ポリロゴス〈1〉特集:ミシェル・フーコー — Contributor — 1 copy
世界文学大系〈第51〉クローデル,ヴァレリー (1960年) — Contributor — 1 copy
ユリイカ 詩と批評 1985年 04月号 特集=モーリス・ブランショ — Contributor — 1 copy
季刊パイデイア 6号 1969年夏 特集=シュルレアリスムと革命 — Contributor — 1 copy
季刊パイデイア 7号 1970年春 特集=モーリス・ブランショ — Contributor — 1 copy
季刊 審美 第十五号 — Contributor — 1 copy
現代詩手帖 1992年 10月号 特集:ジュリアン・グラック 散文詩の秘法 — Contributor — 1 copy
現代詩手帖 1964年 07月号 — Contributor — 1 copy
実存と虚無 — Contributor — 1 copy
海 1969年06月 発刊記念号 — Contributor — 1 copy
マイノリティは創造する — Contributor — 1 copy
無限 詩と詩論 26 特集「アルチュール・ランボー」 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Blanchot, Maurice
- Birthdate
- 1907-09-22
- Date of death
- 2003-02-20
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Devrouze, Saône-et-Loire, France
- Place of death
- Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, Yvelines, France
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
Èze, Alpes-Maritime, France - Education
- University of Strasbourg (BA | 1922)
University of Paris (MA | 1930) - Occupations
- philosopher
literary theorist
writer
novelist
journalist - Relationships
- Bataille, Georges (friend)
- Organizations
- Nouvelle Revue Française
- Short biography
- Maurice Blanchot lived in Paris during the German Occupation of World War II, and was active in the French Resistance. In June 1944, shortly before the Liberation, he was close to being executed by the Nazis, which he described in his book The Instant of My Death. His work on the questions of language and meaning had a strong influence on post-war French literary theory and criticism.
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- Works
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- Also by
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- Members
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- Popularity
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- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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- Languages
- 20
- Favorited
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Precious: sending plaster casts of a hand to a palm reader. Decadent the first time, but when it happens twice in the same novel (against all odds!) one thinks this surely must be a trope of Huysmans's (Huysmans sentenced to death the same year Blanchot sentenced to be born), or is the mechanical conveyance of plaster a conceit to avoid the dread-ful fortune-teller scene (Impossible to pull off in literature, not even by Kleist.)
Compared to the stupefied physicians of the early 20th century, overwhelmed by the pathophysiology of disease and an obligation to tonal fidelity at bedside, modern physicians are perhaps better on the margins. (Surely more accurate at prognostication than the palm read, though likely hardly less halting.)
"[Infidelity's] merit is to keep [a] story in reserve,"
On infidelity to a tone. A sad moment becomes happy, or there is a moment of comedy or delirious-transcendence ("A perfect rose"), but only to return to a greater silent despair; though Blanchot may not be aware that the sadness turned to humor turned to sadness can become (burnt) humor again at the final moment. (Compare this to the vision of 'silence beyond silence beyond silence.')
"[But] the road wants to see if the man who is coming is really the one who should be coming: it turns around to see who he is. [. . .] Unhappy is the path that turns around to look at the man walking on it;"… (more)