Silence and Death

【Editor's Recommendation】
○ Penetrating the obscure text, with groping strokes, sketching the portrait of "Blanchot the Obscure".
● Provide an in-depth interpretation of Blanchot’s literary and philosophical theories, analyzing the narrative secrets of Blanchot’s fictional works and the development of his poetics of the night.
○ Blanchot’s name lingers like a whisper in the night around the trends of French philosophy and literature: he is remembered in oblivion and present in the absence of anything.
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In order to reproduce the image of a thinker, we need a depiction, a portrait.
Yet, the name Blanchot demands a kind of sketch. For Blanchot fundamentally resists the idea of ​​a clear image, whether of himself or of his thoughts. Rather, it's not the absence of an image, but rather an absolutely obscure image, an image of the night, an image from the outside. It demands to appear in disappearance, to be inscribed in erasure. It is destined to leave behind an indistinct outline on the fragmented canvas, smeared and erased countless times: a figure without a figure, a face without a face, an image without a form.
Then, I can only sketch it.
Faced with the oblivion of time, we can only preserve the original impossible impression in the process of smearing, and can only try to make an endless outline with broken strokes on the paper that is also open for writing, outlining the invisible thinker hidden deep in the gaze of history and avoiding the light of thought - Blanchot l'obscur: Blanchot the Obscure.
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【Content Introduction】
This book is a snapshot of the French thinker and critic Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003). Centered around the concepts of "silence" and "death," and drawing on the works of modernist writers such as Mallarmé, Kafka, and Rilke, the book offers an in-depth interpretation of Blanchot's literary and philosophical theories. It also analyzes the narrative secrets of Blanchot's fictional works and the development of his nocturnal poetics. Through the shimmering light of text, this book attempts to sketch a comprehensible portrait of this "famous missing person who influenced the entire contemporary French intellectual landscape."

2024-06-01

上海文艺出版社

Baideya

288

9787532189953