Thomas The Obscure (english And French Edition)

Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the "new novel, " the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot's first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contains all the remarkable aspects of his famous and perplexing invention, "the ontological narrative"--a tale whose subject is the nature of being itself. This paradoxical work discovers being in the absence of being, mystery in the absence of mystery, both to be searched for limitlessly. As Blanchot launches this endless search in his own masterful way, he transforms the possibilities of the novel. First issued in English in 1973 in a limited edition, this re-issue includes an illuminating essay on translation by Lamberton. Re-issue of Station Hill's edition of Blanchot's first novel, written between 1932 and 1940. This work includes all the remarkable and perplexing features of his later narratives: a tale whose telling probes both the nature of being and the nature of writing. Masterfully translated and including an essay on translation by the translator Maurice Blanchot ; Translated By Robert Lamberton. Translation Of: Thomas L'obscur. Reprint. Originally Published: New York : David Lewis, 1973. Includes Bibliographical References.