Table of Contents

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. A note on the translations. Introduction Leslie Hill, 1. Roger Laporte, Reader of Blanchot Ian Maclachlan, 2. Maurice Blanchot Today Roger Laporte, 3. The Felicities of Paradox: Blanchot on the Null-Space of Literature Rodolphe Gasche, 4. Crossing the Threshold: on `literature and the Right to Death' Christopher Fynsk, 5. The Work and the Absence of the Work Paul Davies, 6. Il y a - Holding Levinas's Hand to Blanchot's Fire Simon Critchley, 7. Conversation Ann Smock, 8. On Unworking: the Image in Writing According to Blanchot Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier, 9. The Trace of Trauma: Blindness, Testimony and the Gaze in Blanchot and Derrida Michael Newman, 10. `A Wound to Thought' Michael Holland, 11. Potter's Field: Death Worked and Unworked Gillian Rose, 12. A Letter Maurice Blanchot, 13. Pour Sainte-Beuve: Maurice Blanchot, March 10, 1942 Jeffrey Mehlman

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Carolyn Bailey Gill

Reviews

'The essays in this collection provide a valuable introduction to the central questions of Blanchot's writing.' - Allan Stoekl, Pennsylvania State University