The Most High (French Modernist Library)
by Maurice Blanchot
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"Blanchot describes a world where the Absolute has finally overcome all other rivals to its authority. The State is unified, universal, and homogeneous, promising perfect satisfaction. Why then does it find revolt everywhere? Could it be the omnipresent police? The plagues? The proliferating prisons and black markets? Written in part as a description of post-World War II Europe, Blanchot's dystopia charts with terrible clarity the endless death of god in an era of constantly metamorphosing show more but strangely definitive ideologies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved show lessTags
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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, and "Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him" (translated show more by Jeffrey Mehlman, 1987). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Collection L'imaginaire (203)
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- 至高者
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Science Fiction
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- 843.912 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction 1900- 20th Century 1900-1945
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- PQ2603 .L3343 .T713 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1900-1960
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