About this title: "Another of Blanchot's almost-fictions ...throwing into deliciously baffling high relief the enigmatic condition of a man and woman alone in a sparsely furnished hotel room who try to remember what has happened to bring them there as they apprehensively await whatever will happen next. Their reserved confusion and quiet desperation eventually impress upon them (and us) the realization that imagination (or, if you will, writing) can create reality - and offer the paradoxical solace that seems to rest at the heart of Blanchot's writing: the sense that even language that expresses ...
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Description: Very good. Very Good. Copyright 1997 hardcover published by University of Nebraska Press//Unmarked pages, uncreased spine, moderate wear on dust jacket. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780803261570ISBN:0803261578
Description: New. Maurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory. Two of his most ambitious nonfiction works, The Space of Literature and The Writing of the Disaster, are also available from the University of Nebrask... read more
Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xviii+85 pp. Hardback. Translated with an introduction by John Gregg. Fine cloth in Near Fine-dust jacket. Mild yellowing to DJ front panel along spine and very slight rubbing to edge of DJ at spine ends. A great copy of a great book. ISBN: 0803212577 One of the keystone works by one of the 20th century's most influential writers and thinkers. 'The distinction between 'novels, ' 'narrative, ' and 'criticism' is progressively weakened in Blanchot ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780803212572ISBN:0803212577
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Octavo; 85pp; Hardcover 1st Ed in dust jacket AS NEW, no remainder mark or other markings, no defects, clean tight pristine & unbumped (dj in mylar) read more
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