For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. This collection of 29 critical essays and reviews on art, politics, literature, and philosophy documents the wide range of Blanchot's interests, from the enigmatic paintings in the Lascaux caves to the atomic era. Essays are devoted to works of fiction (Louis-Rene des Forets, Pierre Klossowski, Roger Laporte, Marguerite Duras), to autobiographies or...
For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably t...
The German Occupation of France put an end to Maurice Blanchot's career as a political journalist. In April 1941 he began to publish a weekly column of literary criticism in the Journal des Debats, which became the source for his first critical work, Faux pas (1943). As well as providing a unique perspective on cultural life during the Occupation, these pieces offer crucial insights into the mind and art of a writer who was to become one of the most influential figures on the French literary scene in the second half of the twentieth century. As well as laying the basis for the career of...
The German Occupation of France put an end to Maurice Blanchot's career as a political journalist. In April 1941 he began to publish a weekly column o...
These articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original developments in the postwar era, among writers such as Robbe-Grillet, Butor, Sarraute, and Duras, not to mention Blanchot himself. In addition, Blanchot is receptive in his weekly column to the extraordinarily wide range of original writing and thinking that was produced during the dark years of occupation, in areas such as psychology, anthropology, ancient history, linguistics, and philosophy. A...
These articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Francouzský filozof, literární kritik a spisovatel Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003), jehož dílo oceňovali nebo na něj navazovali významní tvůrci a myslitelé, jako byli E. Lévinas, G. Bataille, M. Foucault, J. Derrida či R. Barthes, vydal román Temný Tomáš poprvé r. 1941. Jeho zkrácená verze z r. 1950 byla přeložena do vícera světových jazyků a nyní vychází i česky.
Již svým názvem román odkazuje na Hérakleita a hérakleitovský, nepojmově temný způsob nazírání se vine celým textem. Spíše než klasickým vyprávěním je jistým druhem...
Francouzský filozof, literární kritik a spisovatel Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003), jehož dílo oceňovali nebo na něj navazovali významní tvůr...
