Blanchot

The art of criticism

Criticism is no longer an external judgement placing the literary work in a position of value and bestowing i…

Top ten European modernists

Hurray for Tom McCarthy's top 10 European modernists list. Who could imagine Blanchot getting an unfatuo…

The Last Man

Ubuweb has made available a PDF of Maurice Blanchot's 1957 novel The Last Man as translated by Lydia Da…

An instant of extreme happiness

Last month I was slightly hasty in heralding the release of A Voice from Elsewhere , a collection of late es…

A pure reverberation

Charlotte Mandell's long-awaited translation of Maurice Blanchot's late essay collection A Voice fr…

The aura of books

Sitting here all weekend with an iBook on my lap, reading online, hoping for emails to arrive, waiting for RS…

Failing as utopians

The tenth issue of the online journal ATOPIA reflects "on the space left for literary, philosophical a…

Rimbaud too: the force and the lack

The most moving reading experiences tend to happen, at least for me, late at night, last thing, or before daw…

Allusions and caricatures

Andrew Hussey's sideswipe (it can hardly be called a review) at Jonathan Littell's novel Les Bienvei…

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