Desperate Clarity : Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942 / Maurice Blanchot.
Blanchot, Maurice, author.; Holland, Michael, contributor.
2021
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Title Desperate Clarity : Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942 / Maurice Blanchot.
Author Blanchot, Maurice, author.
ISBN 9780823291380
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291380
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (240 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823291380 doi
Summary 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 highly original doctrine of writing can be seen to develop in which, thanks to the desperate clarity with which Blanchot's mind accepts and advances into what he sees as absolute and irrevocable disaster, thought is carefully and systematically deflected away from any sort of nihilism, thanks to a new relationship between reason, with its unitary subject, and the otherness to which imagination offers access.
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Added Author Holland, Michael, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
From the Middle Ages to Symbolism
A Novel by Colette
Bergson and Symbolism
Tales and Stories
The Politics of Sainte-Beuve
Stories of Childhood
Jean Giono's Destiny
The Revelation of Dante
Three Novels
After Dangerous Liaisons
The Misfortunes of Duranty
Realism's Chances
Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus
In the Land of Magic
Ghost Story
A User's Guide to Montherlant
Considerations on the Hero
''The Finest Romantic Book''
That Infernal Affair
Vigils of the Mind
Fire, Water, and Dreams
The Memory of Maupassant
Unknown Romantics
Refuges by Léon-Paul Fargue
Poetic Works
Bad Thoughts by Paul Valéry
New Novels
From Taine to M. de Pesquidoux
Notes
Index

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