Awaiting Oblivion

Informationen zum Autor Maurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory. Two of his most ambitious nonfiction works, The Space of Literature and The Writing of the Disaster, are also available from the University of Nebraska Press, as is The Most High, his third novel. John Gregg is the author of Maurice Blanchot and the Literature of Transgression. Klappentext Maurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory. Two of his most ambitious nonfiction works, The Space of Literature and The Writing of the Disaster, are also available from the University of Nebraska Press, as is The Most High, his third novel. John Gregg is the author of Maurice Blanchot and the Literature of Transgression. Zusammenfassung Describes the enigmatic condition of a man and woman alone in a sparsely furnished hotel room who try to remember what has happened to bring them there as they await whatever will happen next. This book tells of their reserved confusion and quiet desperation that impress upon them (and us) the realization that imagination can create reality.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Blanchot, BLANCHOT MAURICE, John Gregg
• Assisted by: John Gregg (Editor), John Gregg (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1999
• EAN: 9780803261570
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-6157-0
• No. of pages: 87
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 7 mm
• Series: French Modernist Library; French Modernist Library
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature