WHEN THE TIME COMES - Softcover

Maurice Blanchot (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0930794958 ISBN 13: 9780930794958

Publisher: Station Hill Press, 1995

Synopsis

WHEN THE TIME COMES ostensibly chronicles the troubled relations between the narrator - a very ill man - and the two women whose lives he invades. As in all of Blanchot’s intensely subjective fiction, the true subject of the work is the narrator’s consciousness and the process by which his tale emerges through its telling. Powerfully affected by the slightest of events, the narrator responds with a violence that, most disturbingly, appears inevitable.

About this title

About the Author:

Maurice Blanchot is one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in modern French writing yet no interview, no biographical sketch, and hardly any photographs have ever been published of him. His work encompasses the writing of novels and recits as well as articles and books of philosophical (or to be precise anti-philosophical) criticism. He is one of the few significant theorists of literature of the last century to have worked outside a university context, yet for fifty years, he has been the most consistent champion of modern literature and its tradition in French letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0930794958
• ISBN 13: 9780930794958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80