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Translated by Charlotte Mandell. Gathers together essays originally published in La Nouvelle Revue Française; almost all of them appear in English for the first time.
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During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substance, left their unmistakable imprint on the work of the most distinguished French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, for example, are hardly imaginable without Blanchot.
The Book to Come gathers together essays originally published in La Nouvelle Revue Française; almost all of them appear in English for the first time. Not a random collection of essays, this book is organized into four sections: "the secret of literature"; literature as exigence and as meaning; literature and the novel; and the future of writing and of the book. The authors discussed constitute a veritable repertoire: Rousseau, Proust, Artaud, Brach, Musil, James, Beckett, Bataille, Mallarmé, Joubert, and Claudel, among others.
Table of Contents
Translator's Note xi
I. THE SONG OF THE SIRENS
Encountering the Imaginary 3 (8)
The Experience of Proust 11 (16)
II. THE LITERARY QUESTION
``There could be no question of ending 27 (7)
well''
Artaud 34 (7)
Rousseau 41 (8)
Joubert and Space 49 (17)
Claudel and the Infinite 66 (13)
Prophetic Speech 79 (7)
The Secret of the Golem 86 (7)
Literary Infinity: The Aleph 93 (4)
The Failure of the Demon: The Vocation 97 (10)
III. ON AN ART WITHOUT FUTURE
At Every Extreme 107(4)
Broch 111(15)
The Turn of the Screw 126(8)
Musil 134(16)
The Pain of Dialogue 150(9)
The Clarity of the Novel 159(6)
H.H. 165(18)
Diary and Story 183(6)
Story and Scandal 189(6)
IV. WHERE IS LITERATURE GOING?
The Disappearance of Literature 195(7)
The Search for Point Zero 202(8)
``Where now? Who now?'' 210(8)
Death of the Last Writer 218(6)
The Book to Come 224(21)
The Power and the Glory 245(8)
Notes 253