Bident Maurice Blanchot

A Critical Biography
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8178-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 612 Seiten

Maurice Blanchot: a Critical Biography attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with those close to the writer. It tracks the life and work of one of the most important novelists and critics of the twentieth century, who influenced many writers, artists, and philosophers, not least those of French theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bident, Christophe

Weitere Mitwirkende

McKeane, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator’s Note ix

Preface xi

Part I 1907–1923

1. Blanchot of Quain: Genealogy, Birth, Childhood (1907–1918) 3

2. Music and Family Memory: Marguerite Blanchot in Chalon (1920s) 10

3. The Fedora of Death: Illness (1922–1923) 13

Part II 1920s–1940

4. The Walking Stick with the Silver Pommel: The University of Strasbourg (1920s) 21

5. A Flash in the Darkness: Meeting Emmanuel Levinas (1925–1930) 24

6. There Is: Philosophical Apprenticeship (1927–1930) 29

7. Aligning One’s Convictions: Paris and Far-Right Circles (1930s) 34

8. “Mahatma Gandhi”: A First Text by Blanchot (1931) 41

9. Refusal, I. The Revolution of Spirit: La Revue Française, Réaction, and La Revue du Siècle (1931–1934) 44

10. Journalist, Opponent of Hitler, National- Revolutionary: Le Journal des Débats, Le Rempart, Aux Écoutes, and La Revue du Vingtième Siècle (1931–1935) 51

11. The Escalation of Rhetoric: The Launch of Combat (1936) 62

12. Terrorism as a Method of Public Safety: Combat ( July–December 1936) 67

13. Patriotism’s Breaking Point: L’Insurgé (1937) 71

14. These Events Happened to Me in 1937: Death Sentences (1937–1938) 82

15. On the Transformation of Convictions: A Journalist of the Far Right (1930s) 88

16. From Revolution to Literature: Literary Criticism (1930s) 91

17. Murderous Omens of Times to Come—Writing the Récits:
“The Last Word” and “The Idyll” (1935–1936) 101

18. Night Freely Recircled, Which Plays Us: Thomas the Obscure (1932–1940) 111

Part III 1940 –1949

19. The Universe Is to Be Found in Night: Resistance (1940–1944) 121

20. Using Vichy against Vichy: Jeune France (1941–1942) 127

21. Admiration and Agreement: Meeting Georges Bataille (1940–1943) 135

22. In the Name of the Other: Literary Chronicles at the Journal des Débats (1941–1944) 145

23. A True Writer Has Appeared: The Publication and Reception of Thomas the Obscure (1941–1942) 160

24. Lift This Fog Which Is Already of the Dawn: The Publication of Aminadab (1942) 163

25. Writers Who Have Given Too Much to the Present: NRF Circles (1941–1942) 170

26. From Anguish to Language: The Publication of Faux pas (1943) 178

27. The Prisoner of the Eyes That Capture Him: Quain (Summer 1944) 182

28. The Disenchantment of the Community: Editorial Activity after Liberation (1944 –1946) 187

29. The Year of Criticism: L’Arche, Les Temps Modernes, and Critique (1946) 192

30. Respecting Scandal: Literary Criticism (1945–1948) 195

31. The Black Stain: Writing The Most High (1946–1947) 208

32. The Passion of Silence: Denise Rollin (1940s) 219

33. The Mediterranean Sojourn: The Writing of the Night (1947) 225

34. Something Inflexible: The Madness of the Day, a New Status for Speech (1947–1949) 229

35. The Turn of the Screw: The Second Version of Thomas the Obscure (1947–1948) 232

36. The Authority of Friendship: The Completion of Death Sentence (1947–1948) 235

37. Quarrels in the Literary World: Publication and Reception (1948–1949) 239

Part IV 1949–1959

38. Invisible Partner: Èze, Withdrawal (1949–1957) 245

39. The Essential Solitude: Writing the Récits (1949–1953) 248

40. The Radiance of a Blind Power: When the Time Comes (1949–1951) 254

41. Are You Writing, Are You Writing Even Now? The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me (1951–1953) 261

42. The Critical Detour: A Few Articles of Literary Criticism (1950–1951) 266

43. The Author in Reverse: The Birth of The Space of Literature (1951–1953) 271

44. Always Already (The Poetic and Political Interruption of Thought):
Toward The Book to Come (1953–1958) 280

45. Of an Amazing Lightness: The Last Man (1953–1957) 290

46. Grace, Strength, Gentleness: Meeting Robert Antelme (1958) 297

47. In the Gaze of Fascination: The Return to Paris (1957–1958) 301

48. Refusal, II. In the Name of the Anonymous: The 14 Juillet Project (1958–1959) 303

Part V 1960 –1968

49. Note That I Say “Right” and Not “Duty”: The Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War (1960) 315

50. Invisible Partners: The Project for the International Review (1960–1965) 324

51. Characters in Thought: How Is Friendship Possible? (1958–1971) 336

52. Act in Such a Way That I Can Speak to You: Awaiting Oblivion (1957–1962) 342

53. The Thought of the Neuter: Literary and Philosophical Criticism—the Entretien and
the Fragment (1959–1969) 349

54. A First Homage: The Special Issue of Critique (1966) 362

55. Between Two Forms of the Unavowable: The Beaufret Affair (1967–1968) 370

56. The Far Side of Fear: Political Disillusionment (May 1968) 375

Part VI 1969–1997

57. Life Outside: The Step Not Beyond, a Journal Written in the Neuter (1969–1973) 389

58. Friendship in Disaster: Distance, Disappearance (1974 –1978) 403

59. The Last Book: The Writing of the Disaster (1974 –1980) 406

60. Forming the Myth: Readings and Nonreadings (1969–1979) 416

61. Making the Secret Uncomfortable: Blanchot’s Readability and Visibility (1979–1997) 424

62. With This Break in History Stuck in One’s Throat: The Unavowable Community (1982–1983) 435

63. Even a Few Steps Take Time: Literature and Witnessing (1983–1997) 445

Amor: Blanchot since 2003 465
John McKeane

Acknowledgments 479

Notes 481

Bibliography 599

Index 605

Über Autor(innen)

Bident Christophe:
Christophe Bident is Professor of Theater Studies at the University of Picardie Jules Verne. He is the author of works on Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes and Bernard-Marie Koltès.McKeane John:
John McKeane is Lecturer in Modern French Literature at the University of Reading. He is the translator of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Adoration: the Deconstruction of Christianity II.Christophe Bident (Author)
Christophe Bident is Professor of Theater Studies at the University of Picardie Jules Verne. He is the author of works on Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes and Bernard-Marie Koltès.

John McKeane (Translator)
John McKeane is Lecturer in Modern French Literature at the University of Reading. He is the translator of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Adoration: the Deconstruction of Christianity II.