Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot's first novel, here brilliantly

Thomas the Obscure

Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot's first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contains all the remarkable aspects of his famous and perplexing invention, the ontological narrative--a tale whose subject is the nature of being itself. This paradoxical work discovers being in the absence of being, mystery in the absence of mystery, both to be searched for limitlessly. As Blanchot launches this endless search in his own masterful way, he transforms the possibilities of the novel. First issued in English in 1973 in a limited edition, this re-issue includes an illuminating essay on translation by Lamberton.
Country USA
Brand Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.
Manufacturer Station Hill Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780882680767
ReleaseDate 1995-01-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780882680767

Country	USA
Brand	Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.
Manufacturer	Station Hill Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780882680767
ReleaseDate	1995-01-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780882680767

Thomas the Obscure