Tagged: Maurice Blanchot

On & By Blanchot

Here is my contribution — a brief remembrance of buying my first Blanchot book in Paris & a reading from The Unavowable Community —to the Maurice Blanchot Celebrations at Bard College in November 2007....

Blanchot's Désoeuvrement in NY Subway

“Le désoeuvrement” — a core term in Maurice Blanchot’s late writings, which I translated as “the unworking” in The Unavowable Community, available in paperback from Station Hill Press — has just surfaced (well, maybe...

Jonathan Littell reads Maurice Blanchot

Next month Jonathan Littell’s controversial novel The Kindly Ones will be published in Charlotte Mandell’s translation by Harper-Collins. Meanwhile, for a special issue celebrating the 100th anniversary of La Nouvelle revue Française (NRF), Littell...