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Into Disaster: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1941

By Maurice Blanchot , Michael Holland

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0823250970, 9780823250974
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12760357 bytes)
Pages
160\159
Time added
2014-07-22 20:44:33

Description

The German Occupation of France put an end to Maurice Blanchot's career as a political journalist. In April 1941 he began to publish a weekly column of literary criticism in the Journal des Débats, which became the source for his first critical work, Faux pas (1943). As well as providing a unique perspective on cultural life during the Occupation, these pieces offer crucial insights into the mind and art of a writer who was to become one of the most influential figures on the French literary scene in the second half of the twentieth century. As well as laying the basis for the career of one France's most original writers and thinkers, these articles also offer a reminder that Blanchot's political awareness remains undimmed, through clear if sometimes coded acts of criticism or defiance of the prevailing order.

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