Madness of the Day
by Maurice Blanchot
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Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism)of The Madness of the Day that it is a story whose title runs wild and drives the reader mad.la folie du jour, the madness of today, of the day today, which leads to the madness that comes from the day, is born of it, as well as the madness of the day itself, itself mad..La folie du jour is a story of madness, of that madness that consists in seeing the light, vision or visibility, to see beyond what is visible, is not merely 'to have a show more vision' in the usual sense of the word, but to see-beyond-sight, to see-sight-beyond-sight..The story obscures the sun.with a blinding light. show lessTags
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Madness of the Day demands to be watched, but then, I would think that. I first came upon it at La Mama, a theatre I’m ashamed to say I’d never been to before the beginning of this year. Mystified too – how on earth could I have spent 15 years living in Melbourne going to the theatre with the fervour of a fanatic and be writing this now?
It was the experience of seeing it performed – soliloquies, one-man shows, how I love them – that made me come back to Geneva and buy the English translation. The haziness of the experience of reading it and recognising chunks of it, but not sure if it was all as in the show, not least because it was over 40C in the shade the night we saw it, made me write to La Mama and ask.
I received back a show more detailed reply from the director, Laurence Strangio:
http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/madness-of-the-day-by-maur... show less
It was the experience of seeing it performed – soliloquies, one-man shows, how I love them – that made me come back to Geneva and buy the English translation. The haziness of the experience of reading it and recognising chunks of it, but not sure if it was all as in the show, not least because it was over 40C in the shade the night we saw it, made me write to La Mama and ask.
I received back a show more detailed reply from the director, Laurence Strangio:
http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/madness-of-the-day-by-maur... show less
Fourteen pages of fermented spirits brewed at the truth distillery, aged 40 years in an oaken barrel, drunk by me while teetering on this shifty fulcrum of a Monday. Maybe I'll give it a proper review someday...if the madness of my own days ever lessens.
Station Hill is one of my favorite publishers. They published Franz Kamin's only record, That's enuf to endear them to me forever. This bk, however, didn't really do anything for me. I probably just didn't appreciate it enuf.
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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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- Päivän hulluus
- Original title
- La folie du jour
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