The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me

The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me
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This work takes the form of a conversation, an interview. An obsessive questioning back and forth builds up Blanchot's narrative, with its sense--shared with Kafka's famous doorkeeper parable--that behind each question lies the spooky possibility of a further, more imposing, more insoluble question. Thematically, powerlessness, inertia, insufficient speech, weariness, falling, faltering--everything tied to a negative or nonexistent value in ordinary discourse--is given value here by its being articulated, moved into writing and thought. What's insignificant or worthless gathers weight through its troubling persistence, its failure to disappear. The endless conversation of Blanchot's writing turns fiction toward an experience of listening--a far cry from the storytelling most fiction (still) takes itself to be.
Country USA
Brand Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.
Manufacturer Station Hill Press @ Barrytown
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780882681511
ReleaseDate 1995-06-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780882681511

Country	USA
Brand	Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.
Manufacturer	Station Hill Press @ Barrytown
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780882681511
ReleaseDate	1995-06-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780882681511

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