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Maurice Blanchot

Born

in Devrouze, France

September 22, 1907

Died

February 20, 2003

Genre

Nonfiction, Philosophy, Literature & Fiction

Influences

Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Stéphane Mallarmé, Friderich Nietz ...more

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Maurice Blanchot (September 22, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher, literary theorist and writer of fiction. Blanchot was a distinctly modern writer who broke down generic boundaries, particularly between literature and philosophy. He began his career on the political right, but the experience of fascism altered his thinking to the point that he supported the student protests of May 1968. Like so many members of his generation, Blanchot was influenced by Alexandre Kojeve's humanistic interpretation of Hegel and the rise of modern existentialism influenced by Heidegger and Sartre. His Literature and the Right to Death shows the influence that Heidegger had on a whole generation of French int ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 12,991 ratings · 1,142 reviews · 142 distinct works • Similar authors

	Thomas the Obscure by Maurice Blanchot, Robert Lamberton (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 1,316 ratings — published 1941 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot, Lydia Davis (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 1,368 ratings — published 1948 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Space of Literature 4.30 avg rating — 864 ratings — published 1955 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Writing of the Disaster by Maurice Blanchot, Ann Smock (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 767 ratings — published 1980 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Madness of the Day by Maurice Blanchot, Lydia Davis (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 666 ratings — published 1973 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Awaiting Oblivion by Maurice Blanchot, John Gregg (Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 418 ratings — published 1962 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinite Conversation 4.45 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 1969 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Instant of My Death / Demeure: Fiction and Testimony by Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Elizabeth Rottenberg (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unavowable Community by Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Joris (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 1983 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Man 3.89 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 1957 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Maurice Blanchot (?)

“A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.”
― Maurice Blanchot

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“Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each work is the implementation of this original fault, from which comes a risky plenitude and new light.”
― Maurice Blanchot

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“There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.”
― Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature

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