Death Sentence
by Maurice Blanchot 2021-05-28 09:34:30
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This long awaited reprint of a book about which John Hollander wrote: A masterful version of one of the most remarkable novels in any language since World War II, is the story of the narrator''s relations with two women, one terminally ill, the other... Read more
This long awaited reprint of a book about which John Hollander wrote: A masterful version of one of the most remarkable novels in any language since World War II, is the story of the narrator''s relations with two women, one terminally ill, the other found motionless by him in a darkened room after a bomb explosion has separated them. Through more than 40 years, the French writer Maurice Blanchot has produced an astonishing body of fiction and criticism, writes Gilbert Sorrentino in the New York Review of Books, and John Updike in The New Yorker: Blanchot''s prose gives an impression, like Henry James, of carrying meanings so fragile they might crumble in transit. Less
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  • 9780449145104
Maurice Blanchot (22 Sep 1907 – 20 Feb 2003) was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Miche...
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