Аннотация
Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century—world 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?
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\_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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