Description: Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary theorist and novelist Maurice Blanchot between 1933 and 1949.
Brief description: Marty Hiatt is an independent scholar and poet. He is the author of Paraphrenia and translator of Nathalie Quintane's Tomatoes + Why doesn't the far left read literature?
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"Hiatt provides us with an in-depth reading of Maruice Blanchot, a right-wing political journalist in 1930s France who went on to become one of the leading figures of late twentieth-century literary theory. His brilliant analysis propels us beyond the controversies and polemics that have dogged work on Blanchot over the past decade. Neither falling into gross attacks on Blanchot nor blindly defending him, Maurice Blanchot paints a nuanced picture on the basis of detailed engagement with the evidence. As such, it is the book that we have been waiting for." -- John McKeane, University of Reading