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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780803261204 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
848.91207 |
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BLA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Blanchot, Maurice |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Writing of the disaster : L'ecriture du desastre |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
University of Nebraska Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1995 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Lincoln : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii,152 p.; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
16.99 |
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GBP |
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104.20 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the centuryworld wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust - grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning? The Writing of the Disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disaster's infinite threat. First published in French in 1980, it takes up the most serious tasks of writing: to describe, explain and redeem when possible, and to admit what is not possible. Neither offers consolation. Maurice Blanchot has been praised on both sides of the Atlantic for his fiction and criticism. The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas once remarked that Blanchot's writing is a "language of pure transcendence, without correlative." Literary theorist and critic Geoffrey Hartman remarked that Blanchot's influence on contemporary writers "cannot be overestimated." |
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Blanchot |
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Maurice |
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Disasters |
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Authorship |
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World wars |
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Hiroshima |
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Terror |
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Death |
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Forgetfulness |
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Passivity |
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Relation |
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Smock, Ann |
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Books |