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Maurice Blanchot: Literary Space
"Literary Space" by Maurice Blanchot, is one of the fundamental books of our modernity. It is not only an essay on the understanding of literary creation, but also a precise research on what is really significant for today's man facing the fact that "something like art or literature exists": descent into the depths, access to the mysterious, the experience of solitude and death. The author explores the works of Kafka, Mallarme, Rilke, Holderlin and many others. Perhaps there is no more rigorous, rich meditation on the creative act in all literary theory than Blanchot's.
Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), French novelist and essayist. His whole life was devoted to literature, and he wrote more than fifty works. Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas considered him the most important theorist of literature and dedicated a book to him.
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