TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blanchot,Maurice
AU  - Holland,Michael
TI  - Into Disaster: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1941 
SN  - 9780823250974
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chronicle of Intellectual Life 1 --; The Writers’ Silence --; Chronicle of Intellectual Life 2 --; Two Novels --; France and Contemporary Civilization --; The Art of Montesquieu --; The Search for Tradition --; The Novel and Poetry --; Culture and Civilization --; In Praise of Rhetoric --; A View of Descartes --; A Novel by Mauriac --; Young Novelists --; Theater and the Public --; Mediterranean Inspirations --; Unknown or Underrated Authors --; Terror in Literature --; The Writer and the Public --; Huysmans’s Secret --; The Man in a Hurry --; The Sorbonne Novel --; Paradoxes on the Novel --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The German occupation of France put an end to Maurice Blanchot’s career as a political journalist. In April 1941, he began to publish a weekly column of literary criticism in the Journal des Débats, which became the source for his first critical work, Faux pas (1943). As well as providing a unique perspective on cultural life during the occupation, these pieces offer crucial insights into the mind and art of a writer who was to become one of the most influential figures on the French literary scene in the second half of the twentieth century. In addition to laying the basis for the career of one France’s most original writers and thinkers, these articles offer a reminder that Blanchot’s political awareness remains undimmed, through clear if sometimes coded acts of criticism or defiance of the prevailing order
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291854
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823291854
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