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Desperate Clarity : Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942 / Maurice Blanchot.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823251001
  • 9780823291380
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- From the Middle Ages to Symbolism -- A Novel by Colette -- Bergson and Symbolism -- Tales and Stories -- The Politics of Sainte-Beuve -- Stories of Childhood -- Jean Giono’s Destiny -- The Revelation of Dante -- Three Novels -- After Dangerous Liaisons -- The Misfortunes of Duranty -- Realism’s Chances -- Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus -- In the Land of Magic -- Ghost Story -- A User’s Guide to Montherlant -- Considerations on the Hero -- ‘‘The Finest Romantic Book’’ -- That Infernal Affair -- Vigils of the Mind -- Fire, Water, and Dreams -- The Memory of Maupassant -- Unknown Romantics -- Refuges by Léon-Paul Fargue -- Poetic Works -- Bad Thoughts by Paul Valéry -- New Novels -- From Taine to M. de Pesquidoux -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 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 was produced during the dark years of occupation, in areas such as psychology, anthropology, ancient history, linguistics, and philosophy. A highly original doctrine of writing can be seen to develop in which, thanks to the desperate clarity with which Blanchot’s mind accepts and advances into what he sees as absolute and irrevocable disaster, thought is carefully and systematically deflected away from any sort of nihilism, thanks to a new relationship between reason, with its unitary subject, and the otherness to which imagination offers access.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- From the Middle Ages to Symbolism -- A Novel by Colette -- Bergson and Symbolism -- Tales and Stories -- The Politics of Sainte-Beuve -- Stories of Childhood -- Jean Giono’s Destiny -- The Revelation of Dante -- Three Novels -- After Dangerous Liaisons -- The Misfortunes of Duranty -- Realism’s Chances -- Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus -- In the Land of Magic -- Ghost Story -- A User’s Guide to Montherlant -- Considerations on the Hero -- ‘‘The Finest Romantic Book’’ -- That Infernal Affair -- Vigils of the Mind -- Fire, Water, and Dreams -- The Memory of Maupassant -- Unknown Romantics -- Refuges by Léon-Paul Fargue -- Poetic Works -- Bad Thoughts by Paul Valéry -- New Novels -- From Taine to M. de Pesquidoux -- Notes -- Index

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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 was produced during the dark years of occupation, in areas such as psychology, anthropology, ancient history, linguistics, and philosophy. A highly original doctrine of writing can be seen to develop in which, thanks to the desperate clarity with which Blanchot’s mind accepts and advances into what he sees as absolute and irrevocable disaster, thought is carefully and systematically deflected away from any sort of nihilism, thanks to a new relationship between reason, with its unitary subject, and the otherness to which imagination offers access.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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