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	Maurice Blanchot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maurice Blanchot (September 27, 1907-February 20, 2003) was a French philosopher, literary theorist and writer of fiction.
		Blanchot draws on the work of the symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé in formulating his conception of literary language as anti-realist and distinct from everyday experience.
		Blanchot engages with Heidegger on the question of the philosopher's death, showing how literature and death are both experienced as anonymous passivity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maurice_Blanchot (305 words)

	Station Hill Authors -- Maurice Blanchot
		Blanchot’s fiction draws the reader in by upsetting expectations, we are confronted by characters who are in situations they don’t completely understand, the settings are mysterious, almost surreal.
		Maurice Blanchot's work is an invitation to the reader to join him on those severe and icy slopes of consciousness, to experience what it means to be both fully dead--utterly separated from the world, "a shadow on the sun"--and fully alive.
		Blanchot's work is, as he says, "a force for transformation and creation, made to create enigmas rather than to elucidate them." For the first time, we are able to see it with some clarity.
	www.stationhill.org /blanchot.html (755 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Obituaries \| Maurice Blanchot
		Blanchot was not ready to tell his life story, but we know that he was born in the village of Quain, in Saone et Loire, and went to university in Strasbourg and Paris.
		Blanchot believed that it was in writing itself that the author found his purpose; there was the use of language, the reality of silence and the overwhelming reality of death.
		Blanchot's devotion to language was comparable to the observations of his friend Georges Bataille on obsessions and impulses, and led him to support new writers, such as Samuel Beckett and Alain Robbe-Grillet.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,906580,00.html (715 words)

	Maurice Blanchot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Maurice Blanchot (September 22 1907 - February 20 2003) was a French philosopher literary theorist writer of fiction.
		Blanchot draws on the work of the poet Stéphane Mallarmé in formulating his conception of literary as anti-realist and distinct from everyday experience.
		Maurice Blanchot was originaly a literary critic who later wrote fictions, philosophical essays, and unusual hybrids of the two.
	www.freeglossary.com /Maurice_Blanchot (549 words)

	Blanchot, Maurice
		Blanchot's work frequently takes the form of a meditation inspired by one of a select number of exemplary writers (Friedrich Hölderlin, Franz Kafka, Stéphane Mallarmé;, Rainer Maria Rilke, the Marquis de Sade) and often articulates itself thematically as a critique of dialectical and existential thought.
		Blanchot intervenes at the level of the dialectical mechanism itself, suggesting that the positivity of negation conceals a fundamental neutrality and passivity.
		Blanchot's importance for a certain element in contemporary criticism would be hard to overestimate, but it is also hard to assess.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/maurice_blanchot.html (1435 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Blanchot, Maurice
		Blanchot was born on the 22nd September 1907 to a genteel, rural catholic family in Quain, a hamlet of Devrouze in the canton of Saint-Germain-du-bois (Saône-et-Loire) in Eastern France.
		Blanchot's work, in this sense, is a dismantling of classical and Romantic aesthetics, concepts of unity, work, meaning and form (one would call it a 'Destruction' in Heidegger's sense of the term were it not that Blanchot's work is often also in tension with Heidegger's own idealization of the poetic).
		Blanchot's presence in contemporary criticism, especially those elements of it associated with Derrida and deconstruction, is an immense one, though mainly he is treated as a recurrent point of reference rather than as the founder of any sort of school or recognizable critical method.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5175 (1609 words)

	Maurice Blanchot - Wikipédia
		Maurice Blanchot (Quain, Saône-et-Loire, 27 septembre 1907 - Yvelines, 20 février 2003) est un romancier et essayiste français.
		Blanchot fréquente l’action française et déambule muni d'une canne au pommeau d'argent.
		Grossièrement on peut présenter l'œuvre de Maurice Blanchot selon quatre catégories : romans, récits, critique littéraire, écriture fragmentaire.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maurice_Blanchot (686 words)

	Maurice Blanchot -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Blanchot draws on the work of the symbolist poet (French symbolist poet noted for his free verse (1842-1898)) Stéphane Mallarmé in formulating his conception of literary language as anti-realist and distinct from everyday experience.
		Blanchot engages with (German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976)) Heidegger on the question of the philosopher's death, showing how literature and death are both experienced as anonymous passivity.
		Blanchot's later work in particular is influenced by Levinasian ethics and the question of responsibility to (Click link for more info and facts about the Other) the Other.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maurice_blanchot.htm (352 words)

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		Beckett and Blanchot as poets of the fragment.
		Blanchot's is a fragmentation of oscillatory complexity, a play of arching connections and non-sequituurs that inserts itself into the textual space and into narrativity, producing there a virtual narrativity and a radically undermined mimetic theory of literature and of narrative.
		Blanchot has demonstrated some of this: segments that seem to flow together eventually swirling around themselves until they begin to chase their own momentum, finally achieving a kind of static circularity that denies syntactic progression and the "period" of prose or poetry in its duration as writing and for the consciousness of the reader.
	www.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.995/barker.995 (6254 words)

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		As Blanchot writes in "The Sirens' Song," although "the récit seems to fulfill its ordinary vocation as a narrative," it nevertheless bears upon "one single episode" in a way that does not strive to narrate "what is believable and familiar" in the manner of the novelist (446).
		Blanchot is capable of remembering what Ulysses forgets; moreover, since he, too, has written récits and novels, he can also remember what he had to forget as a literary author.
		As Blanchot shows in The Work of Fire, it is not in order to represent the world that Lautréamont gave The Chants of Maldoror the body of a monumental thing, always pushing it toward impenetrability despite the coherence and the eloquence of his language.
	www.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.502/12.3iyer.txt (8833 words)

	WORDTHEQUE - Logos Translations multilingual library
		Despite some stiff competition, Blanchot who was born in 1907 and devotes his life entirely to literature has acquired a reputation for writing some of the most enigmatic prose in modern French.
		Blanchot has indeed heeded the warning represented by the Hegelian dialectic, where, in the end, everything will be recuperated within the framework of Absolute Knowledge.
		All of Blanchot's oeuvre could be seen as a refusal to accept the basis of Hegel's philosophy of the inevitability of the homogeneity implied in the end of history.
	www.wordtheque.com /owa-wt/new_wordtheque.w6_home_author.home?code_author=14655&lang=EN (480 words)

	Maurice Blanchot (1907 - 2003)
		In "Lautréamont and Sade", originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism.
		Blanchot offers Sade’s reason, a corrosive rational unreasoning, apathetic before the cruelty of the passions, as a response to Sartre’s Hegelian politics of commitment.
		"The Experience of Lautréamont," Blanchot’s longest sustained essay, pursues the dark logic of "Maldoror" through the circular gravitation of its themes, the grinding of its images, its repetitive and transformative use of language, and the obsessive metamorphosis of its motifs.
	www.jahsonic.com /MauriceBlanchot.html (442 words)

	Maurice Blanchot - The Absent Voice
		For Blanchot, this is the "malaise of one who has dropped out of reality and drifts forever in the gap between existence and nothingness, incapable of dying and incapable of being born." As readers we undergo:
		Blanchot mentions Victor Hugo's rejection of rhetoric, Verlaine's denunciation of eloquence and Rimbaud's abandonment of "old-hat" poetry.
		Blanchot takes us a long way in this short essay, yet leaves us more or less stranded as before: authenticity and originality are present, it seems, only in the inscrutibility of their presence.
	www.morose.fsnet.co.uk /essays/blanchot/absent_voice.htm (3701 words)

	Norman Madarasz: Maurice Blanchot, 1907-2003
		Blanchot's infinite was the lived experience of death in L'Espace literaire (translated by Ann Shmock in 1989 as The Space of Literature).
		Surely Blanchot's profoundly unwavering friendship with philosopher Emmanuel Levinas is testimony to the depths to which brotherly love prevails, unmoved by offence and innovated upon the tensions relationships instigate.
		Blanchot's political resistance to modern capitalism took hold at the moment when thought and art reach their breaking point in the rule of mediocrity.
	www.counterpunch.com /madarasz03082003.html (1682 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Routledge Critical Thinkers : Maurice Blanchot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		They look at Blanchot's ideas of the connection between language and literature, the connection of philosophy (and particularly concentrating on the idea of death in both literature and philosophy), and the philosophical issue of ethics in literature (Levinas is a strong influence here).
		Blanchot (as for others in this series) the expanse is far too broad to be drawn into such narrow guidelines, and the important and impact of the ideas extends out into the whole range of intellectual development.
		Blanchot is someone I had been aware of through Levinas and Simon Critchely and this book works brilliantly in explaining and evoking Blanchot's complex relationship to both philosophy and literature through literary criticism and the discussion of death.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415234964 (1005 words)

	Maurice Blanchot n'est plus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		L'écrivain et essayiste français Maurice Blanchot, auteur notamment de "L'espace littéraire" (1955), est décédé jeudi 20 février 2003 soir à son domicile près de Paris à l'âge de 95 ans, ont annoncé les quotidiens Le Figaro et Libération lundi.
		Maurice Blanchot a ceci de particulier qu'il pouvait se permettre de ne rien faire pour être connu et n'avait pas besoin de la mise en scène médiatique comme nos écrivains, nos philosophes, nos poètes, qui viennent à la télévision parler de la dernière marque de dentifrice ou de la guerre du Vietnam.
		Maurice Blanchot, en revanche, a cultivé le secret comme William Faulkner ou Julien Gracq.
	www.alalettre.com /actualite/blanchot_nestplus.htm (500 words)

	Maurice Blanchot sur remue.net
		A un autre ami, il y a à peine quelques semaines et si surpris: affaire de téléphone encore, qu'il décroche et une voix dit: "Je suis Maurice Blanchot".
		Moi aussi Blanchot m'avait écrit, on avait correspondu un peu, vers 86-88.
		Quand Blanchot examine comment Lautréamont, de chant à chant, puise dans son propre texte la marche en avant vertigineuse de Maldoror, c'est une grammaire fondamentale de l'invention de récit, on ne le sait pas assez.
	www.remue.net /cont/blanchot.html (1097 words)

	MAURICE BLANCHOT / French postmodern novelist, essayist
		Maurice Blanchot, a reclusive French novelist and essayist who influenced the postmodernist intellectual movement championed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Rene Char and Michel Foucault, died Feb. 20.
		Blanchot was among the first French intellectuals to take an interest in issues of language and meaning.
		Blanchot was born Dec. 22, 1907, in the eastern region of Saone-et- Loire.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/03/BA223892.DTL (329 words)

	Maurice Blanchot -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
		For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene.
		The Blanchot Discussion List is part of the Spoon Collective hosted by the University of Virginia.
		BLANCHOT is an electronic forum for discussion and experimentation pertaining to the writings of Maurice Blanchot and his intersections with Derrida, Heidegger, Foucault, Levinas, Bataille, Deleuze, Nietzsche, Klossowski, etc. BLANCHOT is an open list - all interested parties are invited and encouraged to participate.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~20thcentury/html/blanchot.htm (576 words)

	Maurice Blanchot : The Infinite Conversation : An article by spike magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Behind the words of the written work, nobody is present; but language gives voice to this absence, just as in the oracle, when divinity speaks, the god himself is never present in his words, and it is the absence of god which then speaks." (trans.
		If, as Blanchot says, the voice of the divine and the voice of literature are comparable, they are effectively indistinguishable, thereby doubling the threat to the human project represented by Socrates.
		Blanchot reminds us what was done: "both Plato and Socrates are quick to declare writing, like art, a simple pastime which does not jeopardise seriousness and is reserved for moments of leisure".
	www.spikemagazine.com /0602blanchot.htm (1074 words)

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		Maurice Blanchot : The Infinite Conversation : An article by spike...
		Maurice Blanchot biography I have very little biographical information on Blanchot.
		He has written that andquot;writing is a fearful spiritual weapon that negates the naive existence of what it names and must therefore do the same to itself.
	search.msn.co.jp /spresults.aspx?q=maurice+blanchot&FORM=IE6 (264 words)

	Nowhere Without No - In Memory of Maurice Blanchot
		Charlotte Mandell – translator of The Work of Fire and The Book to Come– recalls how she felt a need to write to Blanchot to thank him for the silence in his words – for the revelation of the space.
		While Blanchot’s prose can be said to be poetic – and Dupin is surely right to detect a "demanding poet" behind the prose - it is not flighty and impressionistic.
		Some of Blanchot's disciples have a remarkable confidence to use the key words and oxymorons that appear throughout Blanchot's work – passivity, sovereign relation, forgetfulness without memory, the impossible real, motionless retreat, purposiveness without purpose – in the assumption that they automatically plumb the depths as they do in Blanchot.
	www.morose.fsnet.co.uk /reviews/nowhere_without_no.htm (1285 words)

	::Espace Maurice Blanchot :: www.blanchot.fr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Irina Kozovoï présente ainsi cette correspondance : « La correspondance entre Maurice Blanchot et Vadim Kozovoï a commencé en 1976, quand Vadim vivait encore à Moscou et traduisait de la poésie française Un jour, un ami français lui apporta des livres de Maurice Blanchot et, bouleversé, Vadim écrivit aussitôt à l’auteur à Paris.
		Blanchot répondit et ce fut le début d’une correspondance extraordinaire intense qui s’est poursuivie jusqu’à la mort de Vadim en mars 1999.
		Maurice Blanchot : partenaire invisible (Champ Vallon, 1998), auxquelles vient donc s'ajouter la présente, qui se voudrait définitive.
	www.blanchot.fr (688 words)

	Maurice Blanchot and the Literature of Transgression - John Gregg - Adobe Reader eBooks
		In this book, the first in English devoted exclusively to Maurice Blanchot, John Gregg examines the problematic interaction between the two forms of discourse, critical and fictional, that comprise this writer's hybrid oeuvre.
		Gregg organizes his discussion around the notion of transgression, which Blanchot himself took over from Georges Bataille--most palpably in his interpretation of the myth of Orpheus--as a paradigm capable of accounting for the relationships that exist in the textual economies formed by author, work, and reader.
		Chapters on the critical work address such issues as Blanchot's ambivalent attitude toward the speculative dialectic of Hegelianism, his thematization of literature's involvement with death, and the mythical and Biblical figures he uses to portray the acts of reading and writing.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/124294-ebook.htm (626 words)

	Maurice Blanchot - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Blanchot déploie un espace et une temporalité propre reposant sur l'attente, l'absence, l'interruption, l'oubli, le silence...
		Plonger dans un récit ou un essai de Blanchot, est une expérience ardue et passionnante.
		Maurice Blanchot est mort le jeudi 20 février 2003 à l'âge de 95 ans.
	www.alalettre.com /blanchot-intro.htm (888 words)

	El mal inconfesable - Juan Gregorio Maurice Blanchot Mallarmé (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		En 1982, en Les éditions de Minuit, Marguerite Duras publicó un texto del que Maurice Blanchot dice “que se bastaba a sí mismo, lo que quiere decir perfecto, lo que quiere decir sin salida”.
		Valgan estas consideraciones para mostrar, con palabras de Blanchot, lo sólo aparentemente arbitrario de “la introducción, aquí, de unas páginas escritas sin otra intención que la de acompañar la lectura de un relato casi reciente (pero la fecha no importa) de Marguerite Duras”.
		No dudo que éste es un motivo que ha llevado a Maurice Blanchot a la observación de que este libro de Duras “es un texto declarativo, y no un relato aunque tenga esa apariencia”.
	perso.wanadoo.es /juangregorio/articulos/blanchot/text7.htm (4030 words)

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