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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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 Kolt¿ 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 . Zusammenfassung Maurice Blanchot: a Critical Biography attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with those close to the writer.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. 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 ...
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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.
