About this title: In this re-issue of Lydia Davis' celebrated translation of Blanchot's classic mysterious "tale" (recit), Au Moment Voulu, the story hovers on the edge of the occult. Ostensibly it chronicles the troubled relations between the narrator -- a very ill man -- and the two women whose lives he invades. As in all of Blanchot's intensely subjective fiction, the true subject of the work is the narrator's consciousness and the process by which his tale emerges through its telling. Powerfully affected by the slightest of events, the narrator responds with a violence that, most disturbingly, appears ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Station Hill Press, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780930794958ISBN:0930794958
Description: Near Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First Softcover Edition. Translated into English by Lydia Davis. Near Fine. Stiff wraps; thin octavo; 74 pp.; slight edgewear to cover, else a clean, crisp copy. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Station Hill Press, Barrytown, NY
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780930794958ISBN:0930794958
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VG. Light corner and edge wear. Small tear on the bottom front edge of wrap. Slight warping of half-title page. Bindidng firm and square., Text in English, French. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 74 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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