1st Edition

Blanchot Extreme Contemporary

By Leslie Hill Copyright 1998
316 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Blanchot provides a compelling insight into one of the key figures in the development of postmodern thought. Although Blanchot's work is characterised by a fragmentary and complex style, Leslie Hill introduces clearly and accessibly the key themes in his work. He shows how Blanchot questions the very existence of philosophy and literature and how we may distinguish between them, stresses the... Read more
1 An intellectual itinerary 2 The (im)possibility of literature 3 Writing the neuter 4 The absence of the book 5 Extreme contemporary

Biography

Leslie Hill is Reader in French Studies at the University of Warwick, and the author of Beckett’s Fiction: In Different Words and Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires.

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