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In so doing, novelistessayist maurice blanchot and philosopher michel foucault develop a new perspective on the relationship between subjectivity, fiction, and the will to truth. A lecture by marc nichanian, delivered at the ucla department of comparative literature. Buy thomas the obscure 1st first by blanchot, maurice 1995 paperback by from amazons fiction books store. During the last half of the twentieth century in france, maurice blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. Written between 1932 and 1940, blanchots first novel, here brilliantly translated by robert lamberton, contains all the remarkable aspects of his famous and perplexing invention, the ontological narrativea tale whose subject is the nature of. Maurice blanchot 19072003 author of the space of literature. Written between 1932 and 1940, it was published in france in 1941 in a much longer form. Thomas the obscure download pdfepub ebook gets free book. His works include death sentence, thomas the obscure, and the space of literature. The writing of the disaster by maurice blanchot nook book.
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