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How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning?

About the Author

Ann Smock is a professor of French at the University of California at Berkeley. She has translated Blanchot's The Space of Literature, also available as a Bison Book. Jeffrey Mehlman, a professor of French at Boston University, is the author of many books and articles on twentieth-century France and French literature.