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Book SynopsisThe fourth volume of Blanchot’s war-time chronicles reflects a commitment to silence and a detachment from circumstance, as Germany’s occupation of France reaches its end. Convinced that disaster is now insuperable, Blanchot neutralizes the nihilism of that position through making it the basis of a new language of human relation.
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Michael Holland 1
The Mystery of Criticism 11
Return to the Source 16
From One Novel to Another 21
The Four Gospels 27
From Jean- Paul to Giraudoux 31
A Diary without Episodes 36
On the Subject of Language 40
The Romance of Mademoiselle Aïssé 45
The Joy of Storytelling 49
Outlawed Idols 53
The Art of André Dhôtel 58
Balzac’s Way of Working 63
The Gothic Novel 68
The Secrets of the Dream 73
A Novel by Jarry 78
Novellas and Stories 84
Chateaubriand’s Secret 88
Fantastic Novels 93
Air and Dreams 97
Joyce’s First Novel 102
A Secret Tone 107
The Literary I 112
Charles Cros 117
The Birth of Rome 122
William Blake 127
On the Various Ways of Dying 132
Pages by Paul Claudel 137
Narratives 142
Léon Bloy 147
Poems 153
The Concern for Sincerity 160
No Man’s Son 165
The Magical Experience of Henri Michaux 169
A Chronology of the “Chronicles of Intellectual Life”
Collected in Faux pas 175
Notes 179
Index 195
