The Work of Fire
by Maurice Blanchot
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Maurice Blanchot is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. Blanchot developed a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing; these essays, in form and substance, left their imprint on the work of the most influential French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida are unimaginable without Blanchot. Published in French in 1949, The Work of Fire is a collection of twenty-two essays originally published in literary show more journals. Certain themes recur repeatedly: the relation of literature and language to death; the significance of repetition; the historical, personal, and social function of literature; and simply the question what is at stake in the fact that something such as art or literature exists? Among the authors discussed are Kafka, Mallarme;, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sartre, Gide, Pascal, Vale;ry, Hemingway, and Henry Miller. 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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- Canonical title
- The Work of Fire
- Original title
- La Part du feu
- People/Characters
- Franz Kafka; Stéphane Mallarmé; René Char; Friedrich Hölderlin; Charles Baudelaire; Arthur Rimbaud (show all 15); Comte de Lautréamont; Henry Miller; Jean-Paul Sartre; Andre Malraux; André Gide; Pascal; Paul Valery; Faust; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
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- French
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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 809 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures
- LCC
- PN81 .B544713 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Criticism
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