000			a
999			_c31586 _d31586
008			230328b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780803261204
082			_a848.91207 _bBLA
100			_aBlanchot, Maurice
245			_aWriting of the disaster : L'ecriture du desastre
260			_bUniversity of Nebraska Press, _c1995 _aLincoln :
300			_axiii,152 p.; _c21 cm
365			_b16.99 _cGBP _d104.20
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aModern 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."
650			_aBlanchot
650			_aMaurice
650			_aDisasters
650			_aAuthorship
650			_aWorld wars
650			_aHiroshima
650			_a Terror
650			_a Death
650			_aForgetfulness
650			_aPassivity
650			_a Relation
700			_aSmock, Ann
942			_2ddc _cBK