Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942

by Maurice Blanchot

Book Overview

These articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original developments in the postwar era, among writers such as Robbe-Grillet, Butor, Sarraute, and Duras, not to mention Blanchot himself. In addition Blanchot is receptive in his weekly column to the extraordinarily wide range of original writing and thinking that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823251004
• ISBN13: 9780823251001
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"