Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography (NYRB Review)
By Kate O'Brien-Nicholson
21st February 2020
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Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography
By Christophe Bident, translated from the French by John
Either in spite or because of its disasters, the twentieth century produced an abundance of great writers and intellectuals. Maurice Blanchot was among the major ones. Born into a well-off French Catholic family in 1907, he suffered serious health problems for most of his life—as early as the 1940s he would alert friends that he was writing his final book or letter—yet he died in 2003 at the age of ninety-five. His
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