Eternal Witness

【Editor's Recommendation】
Maurice Blanchot, novelist and critic.
He devoted his life to literature and its unique silence.
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★ The 31 texts dedicated to Maurice Blanchot bring together the long-lasting echoes of friendship: the unique friendship with Levinas addressed as "you", the friendship with Bataille and Charles when they met in the war, the philosophical friendship and intellectual friendship with Foucault, Derrida, Nancy, and Lacoux-Rabat, the poetic friendship shared with Jabès... In addition, there is the critical friendship dedicated by contemporary writers such as Sartre, Michel Degui, and Richard Mille.
☆ The text, with the infinite prudence of reading, builds a solid testimony of others to open up a territory where literary, philosophical and political communities can be established, a territory of pure friendship.
★ A special collection of Blanchot's autobiography, letters, dedications, reviews, video materials, and manuscripts of some of his works. Like fragments of reflection, they penetrate and linger around the text of the entire friendship, providing the original material of the other's testimony about life itself.
Maurice Blanchot, always an "invisible companion," a "perpetual witness." "From Georges Bataille to Jacques Derrida, the most ambitious thinkers of modernity have recognized Maurice Blanchot as a major writer of the 20th century."
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【Content Introduction】
How to witness a faceless figure in the darkness?
How to listen to a voice without words in silence?
Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), a writer, novelist, literary critic, and thinker, maintained his identity as a writer in an exemplary manner.
For more than half a century, many footsteps have gathered around Maurice Blanchot's name. This book is a tracing and recording of these footsteps—to witness the parallelism and interweaving of the footprints themselves, and to allow these accompanying and colliding steps to carve out a territory where a literary, philosophical, and political community can be established—a territory of pure friendship.
This book consists of two parts. The "Friendship" section includes 14 texts, documenting his shared thinking and action with contemporary poets, writers, and philosophers, as well as the uniqueness and wholehearted engagement of his work. The "Criticism" section includes 15 texts, including critical essays on 15 of Blanchot's works by Levinas, Bataille, Sartre, Nancy, and others, illustrating how this invisible writer nurtured the thought of his time.
The book also includes a general introduction and a chronology of Blanchot.
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Maurice Blanchot... This name, familiar yet unfamiliar, so strange, so alien, the name of someone who is called or who calls from an infinitely distant, unreachable outside, is also a name both intimate and ancient, a name without age, becoming the name of an eternal witness: a witness without complacency, a witness who watches over us, a witness infinitely close. —Jacques Derrida Literature for him is like the flame in a lamp: the flame consumes life, but the flame is also life, because it is death, because it is dying, as it consumes life in burning. —Georges Bataille Dear Maurice Blanchot, thank you for your presence at this moment... On the other side of the desert, there you are. I always find myself in the place you indicate; no matter where it is, that place is always the heart of the book. —Edmond Jabès Maurice Blanchot's writing bears the silence of speechless humanity, and is also borne by silence; it is the "beating heart" of silence. —Robert Antelme

2024-07-01

上海社会科学院出版社

Baideya

416

9787552043938