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This essential reader from Station Hill (Blanchot's longtime publisher in the United States) is six books in one, and the first and only collection of Maurice Blanchot's celebrated fiction and critical/philosophical writing. Regarded both on the European continent and in America as one of the truly great authors of French Post-Modernism, Blanchot's reputation and readership in English has already established him as a modern classic.

The Blanchot Reader brings together a substantial collection of critical and philosophical writings (The Gaze of Orpheus) and the only edition in print in English of his major works of fiction (Thomas the Obscure, Death Sentence, Vicious Circles, The Madness of the Day, When the Time Comes and The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me). General readers and students alike will seek out these essential works by the writer Susan Sontag referred to as an unimpeachably major voice in modern French literature. Maurice Blanchot is now recognized as a major twentieth century philosopher whose influence extends to the works of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lacan and others. Read more.Rating:(not yet rated)Subjects.More like this. This essential reader from Station Hill (Blanchot's longtime publisher in the United States) is six books in one, and the first and only collection of Maurice Blanchot's celebrated fiction and critical/philosophical writing.

Regarded both on the European continent and in America as one of the truly great authors of French Post-Modernism, Blanchot's reputation and readership in English has already established him as a modern classic. The Blanchot Reader brings together a substantial collection of critical and philosophical writings (The Gaze of Orpheus) and the only edition in print in English of his major works of fiction (Thomas the Obscure, Death Sentence, Vicious Circles, The Madness of the Day, When the Time Comes and The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me). General readers and students alike will seek out these essential works by the writer Susan Sontag referred to as an unimpeachably major voice in modern French literature. Maurice Blanchot is now recognized as a major twentieth century philosopher whose influence extends to the works of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lacan and others.

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Campus/ Three Transitions. Zbig Rybzinski. GuyVardi's projectOrpheus' Gazeand Lacan's Map.The Gaze of Orpheus (MauriceBlanchot)The split in the Orpheic world is predetermined: there is light andthere is darkness; life (above) and death (below). 'The power thatcauses the night to open', the force that enables Orpheus to crossthe boundaries of light and life, and to descend to Eurydice, accordingto Blanchot, is that of art. And yet, he continues,Orpheus has gone down to Eurydice: for him Eurydice is the limitof what art can attain; concealed behind a name and covered by a veil,she is the profoundly dark point towards which art, desire, death,and the night all seem to lead. She is the instant in which the essenceof the night approaches as the Other night.

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(p.99)Rendering this dark point, the lure, the point in which the artist'scontrol is undermined, is also the object of the work of art:Orpheus' work does not consist of securing the approach of this 'point'by descending into the depth. His work is to bring it back into thedaylight and in the daylight give it form, figure and reality. Orpheuscan do anything except look this 'point' in the face, lookat the center of the night in the night. (p.99)The superimposed triangles depicted by Lacan in his article on thegaze figure the path undertaken by Orpheus, as well as the evasion,at each end, of the object of (artistic) desire:(figure 1)Rather than obtained, the object of desire is always displaced.