Aminadab (French Modernist Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803261764 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Reminiscent of Kafka's enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction of power, authority, and hierarchy. Although Thomas is constantly reassured that he can leave the building, he seems to be separated forever from the world he has left behind. The novel opens when Thomas, upon seeing a woman gesture to him from a window of a large boarding house, enters the building and slowly becomes embroiled in its inscrutable workings. The story consists of Thomas's frustrated attempts to clarify his status as a resident in the building and his misguided interactions with the cast of sickl
Groping for What GoesThere This book was exhausting. It demanded more than reading, and threw off more than sparks of realization. So one has to give way to its continual assault on sense making and find one's own way. As Blanchot's Thomas does in these melted pages, these riveting whirlpools of sentences and heaps of steaming, liquified words. How is it that such diffusion of image and even allegory can be so compel
Maurice Blanchot may hardly be a household name in America, but in some circles he is one of the essential writers of the 20th century Every sentence of Aminadab is an invitation to think, about language, about responsibility, about life. Yet we are taken by Blanchot's seerlike ability to penetrate to the core of some of the darker aspects of the 20th century." Washington Post Book World July 2002 . Blanchot's density requires us to slow down our reading; he makes us pause, grow uncomfortable. "Aminadab is a startling provocation, a gauntlet thrown down to the fiction reader - and yet there is no complicated theory or code to be cracked
Maurice Blanchot is one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory, including The Most High and Awaiting Oblivion, both available from the University of Nebraska Press. Jeff Fort is a lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Southern California and has translated Blanchot's "The Instant of My Death