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| Genre/Form: | Translations into English |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Blanchot, Maurice. Most high. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1996 (OCoLC)603792466 |
| Named Person: | Maurice Blanchot |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maurice Blanchot; Allan Stoekl |
| ISBN: | 0803212402 9780803212404 |
| OCLC Number: | 32895027 |
| Description: | xxxii, 254 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series Title: | French modernist library. |
| Other Titles: | Très-haut. Très-haut |
| Responsibility: | Maurice Blanchot ; translated and with an introduction by Allan Stoekl. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Blanchot describes a world where the Absolute has finally overcome all other rivals to its authority. The State is unified, universal, and homogeneous, promising perfect satisfaction. Why then does it find revolt everywhere? Could it be the omnipresent police? The plagues? The proliferating prisons and black markets? Written in part as a description of post-World War II Europe, Blanchot's dystopia charts with terrible clarity the endless death of god in an era of constantly metamorphosing but strangely definitive ideologies.
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