Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography

Translator\'s Note ixPreface xiPart I 1907-19231. Blanchot of Quain: Genealogy, Birth, Childhood (1907-1918) 32. Music and Family Memory: Marguerite Blanchot in Chalon (1920s) 103. The Fedora of Death: Illness (1922-1923) 13 Part II 1920s-19404. The Walking Stick with the Silver Pommel: The University of Strasbourg (1920s) 215. A Flash in the Darkness: Meeting Emmanuel Levinas (1925-1930) 246. There Is: Philosophical Apprenticeship (1927-1930) 297. Aligning One\'s Convictions: Paris and Far-Right Circles (1930s) 348. \"Mahatma Gandhi\": A First Text by Blanchot (1931) 419. Refusal, I. The Revolution of Spirit: La Revue Francaise, Reaction, and La Revue du Siecle (1931-1934) 4410. Journalist, Opponent of Hitler, National- Revolutionary: Le Journal des Debats, Le Rempart, Aux Ecoutes, and La Revue du Vingtieme Siecle (1931-1935) 5111. The Escalation of Rhetoric: The Launch of Combat (1936) 6212. Terrorism as a Method of Public Safety: Combat ( July-December 1936) 6713. Patriotism\'s Breaking Point: L\'Insurge (1937) 7114. These Events Happened to Me in 1937: Death Sentences (1937-1938) 8215. On the Transformation of Convictions: A Journalist of the Far Right (1930s) 8816. From Revolution to Literature: Literary Criticism (1930s) 9117. Murderous Omens of Times to Come-Writing the Recits: \"The Last Word\" and \"The Idyll\" (1935-1936) 10118. Night Freely Recircled, Which Plays Us: Thomas the Obscure (1932-1940) 111Part III 1940 -194919. The Universe Is to Be Found in Night: Resistance (1940-1944) 12120. Using Vichy against Vichy: Jeune France (1941-1942) 12721. Admiration and Agreement: Meeting Georges Bataille (1940-1943) 13522. In the Name of the Other: Literary Chronicles at the Journal des Debats (1941-1944) 14523. A True Writer Has Appeared: The Publication and Reception of Thomas the Obscure (1941-1942) 16024. Lift This Fog Which Is Already of the Dawn: The Publication of Aminadab (1942) 16325. Writers Who Have Given Too Much to the Present: NRF Circles (1941-1942) 17026. From Anguish to Language: The Publication of Faux pas (1943) 17827. The Prisoner of the Eyes That Capture Him: Quain (Summer 1944) 18228. The Disenchantment of the Community: Editorial Activity after Liberation (1944 -1946) 18729. The Year of Criticism: L\'Arche, Les Temps Modernes, and Critique (1946) 19230. Respecting Scandal: Literary Criticism (1945-1948) 19531. The Black Stain: Writing The Most High (1946-1947) 20832. The Passion of Silence: Denise Rollin (1940s) 21933. The Mediterranean Sojourn: The Writing of the Night (1947) 22534. Something Inflexible: The Madness of the Day, a New Status for Speech (1947-1949) 22935. The Turn of the Screw: The Second Version of Thomas the Obscure (1947-1948) 23236. The Authority of Friendship: The Completion of Death Sentence (1947-1948) 23537. Quarrels in the Literary World: Publication and Reception (1948-1949) 239Part IV 1949-195938. Invisible Partner: Eze, Withdrawal (1949-1957) 24539. The Essential Solitude: Writing the Recits (1949-1953) 24840. The Radiance of a Blind Power: When the Time Comes (1949-1951) 25441. Are You Writing, Are You Writing Even Now? The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me (1951-1953) 26142. The Critical Detour: A Few Articles of Literary Criticism (1950-1951) 26643. The Author in Reverse: The Birth of The Space of Literature (1951-1953) 27144. Always Already (The Poetic and Political Interruption of Thought): Toward The Book to Come (1953-1958) 28045. Of an Amazing Lightness: The Last Man (1953-1957) 29046. Grace, Strength, Gentleness: Meeting Robert Antelme (1958) 29747. In the Gaze of Fascination: The Return to Paris (1957-1958) 30148. Refusal, II. In the Name of the Anonymous: The 14 Juillet Project (1958-1959) 303Part V 1960 -196849. Note That I Say \"Right\" and Not \"Duty\": The Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War (1960) 31550. Invisible Partners: The Project for the International Review (1960-1965) 32451. Characters in Thought: How Is Friendship Possible? (1958-1971) 33652. Act in Such a Way That I Can Speak to You: Awaiting Oblivion (1957-1962) 34253. The Thought of the Neuter: Literary and Philosophical Criticism-the Entretien and the Fragment (1959-1969) 34954. A First Homage: The Special Issue of Critique (1966) 36255. Between Two Forms of the Unavowable: The Beaufret Affair (1967-1968) 37056. The Far Side of Fear: Political Disillusionment (May 1968) 375Part VI 1969-199757. Life Outside: The Step Not Beyond, a Journal Written in the Neuter (1969-1973) 38958. Friendship in Disaster: Distance, Disappearance (1974 -1978) 40359. The Last Book: The Writing of the Disaster (1974 -1980) 40660. Forming the Myth: Readings and Nonreadings (1969-1979) 41661. Making the Secret Uncomfortable: Blanchot\'s Readability and Visibility (1979-1997) 42462. With This Break in History Stuck in One\'s Throat: The Unavowable Community (1982-1983) 43563. Even a Few Steps Take Time: Literature and Witnessing (1983-1997) 445Amor: Blanchot since 2003 465John McKeaneAcknowledgments 479Notes 481Bibliography 599Index 605