{"product_id":"approaching-disappearance-dalkey-archive-scholarly-1564788083","title":"Approaching Disappearance (Dalkey Archive Scholarly)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1564788083\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e McConnell, Anne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaurice Blanchot (1907-2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictions that reflect on the complexities of literary work. His description of writing continually returns to a number of themes, such as solitude, passivity, indifference, anonymity, and absence-forces confronting the writer, but also the reader, the text itself, and the relations between the three. For Blanchot, literature involves a movement toward disappearance, where one risks the loss of self; but such a sacrifice, says Blanchot, is inherent in the act of writing. \"Approaching Disappearance\" explores the question of disappearance in Blanchot's critical work and then turns to five narratives that offer a unique reflection on the threat of disappearance and the demands of literature-work by Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Louis-Ren? Des For?ts, and Nathalie Sarraute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51931662156064,"sku":"NEW1564788083","price":35.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/approaching-disappearance-dalkey-archive-scholarly-1564788083","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}