La parte del fuego

La parte del fuego - Maurice Blanchot - Arena libros
Publisher name: 
Arena libros
Year of publication: 
2007
Pages: 
308
Book size:
14x22cm

The fire is part of a monumental meditation on literary creation. It is not just a collection of stunning readings of the work of poets (Mallarmé, Hölderlin, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Rene Char, the surrealists), storytellers (Kafka, Sartre, Gide, Leiris, Constant, Miller, Malraux, Hemingway, Lautreamont) and thinkers and philosophers (Nietzsche, Pascal, Valèry, Paulhan), but also the renewed attempt to Maurice Blanchot to answer a question that sneaks into the mystery of his own way of being: what is literature? To this question the part of the fire, in his final essay ( "Literature and the right to death"), will respond with great seriousness: literature is language, the language that "brings death and remains there." That is also the same as the title says: literature is "part of the fire."

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Book: La parte del fuego

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