Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot (22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003) was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Jacques Derrida.

Works

(in French unless noted otherwise)

Fiction

• Aminadab, Paris: Galimard, 1942, ARG.

Scholarly writings and criticism

• Faux pas, Paris: Gallimard, 1943, 366 pp.
  • Falsos pasos, trans. Ana Aibar Guerra, Valencia: Pre-textos, 1977, 334 pp. (Spanish)
  • Faux Pas, trans. Charlotte Mandell, Stanford University Press, 2002, PDF, ARG. (English)

• L'espace littéraire, Paris: Gallimard, 1955, 295 pp, Log.
  • The Space of Literature, trans. & intro. Ann Smock, University of Nebraska Press, 1983, 280 pp, Log. (English)
  • Literární prostor, trans. Marie Kohoutová and Michal Pacvoň, 1999, Log. (Czech)
  • Le Espacio literario, trans. Vicky Palant and Jorge Jinkis, 2002, Log. (Spanish)
  • Prostranstvo literatury, trans. V.P. Bolshakov, et al., 2002, Log. (Russian)

• Le livre à venir, Gallimard, Paris, 1959.
  • The Book to Come, trans. Charlotte Mandell, Stanford University Press, 2002, 267 pp, Log. (English)
  • O livro por vir, trans. Leyla Perrone-Moises, 2005, Log. (Portuguese)

• L'amitié. Un choix d'essais critiques, Paris: Gallimard, 1971, 332 pp.
  • Friendship, trans. Elizabeth Rottenberg, Stanford University Press, 1997, viii+309 pp, PDF, ARG. (English)
  • La amistad, trans. J.A. Doval Liz, Madrid: Trotta, 2007, 267 pp. (Spanish)
  • Die Freundschaft, trans. Uli Menke and Ulrich Kunzmann, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2011, ARG. (German)

• Michel Foucault tel que je l'imagine, Fata morgana, 1986, PDF. With illustrations by Jean Ipoustéguy.
  • Misheru Fūkō. Omoi ni utsuru mama, trans. Toyosaki Koichi, Tetsugaku Shobō, 1986. (Japanese)
  • "Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him", in Foucault, Blanchot, Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside / Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him, New York: Zone Books, 1987, pp 61-109, PDF. (English)
  • Foucault como o imagino, intro. Eduardo Prado Coelho, trans. Miguel Serras Perreira and Ana Luiza Faria, Lisbon: Relógio D'água, 1987, PDF, HTML. (Portuguese)
  • "Michel Foucault tak jak go widzę", trans. Tadeusz Komendant, Colloquia Communia 1:3 (1988), pp 167-177. (Polish)
  • Michel Foucault, tal y como lo imagino, Pre-Textos, 1992, HTML. (Spanish)
  • "Michel Foucault - ahogy én látom", trans. Mihancsik Zsófia, Magyar Lettre Internationale 26:3 (Autumn 1997), pp 65-68, HTML. (Hungarian)
  • "Michel Foucault, amilyennek én képzelem", trans. Szabó László, Határ 4:1-2 (1995), pp 149-162. (Hungarian)
  • Mishel Fuko, kakim ya ego sebe predstavlyayu [Мишель Фуко, каким я его себе представляю], St Petersburg: Machina, 2002, DJV. (Russian)
  • "Michel Foucault, wie ich ihn mir vorstelle", in Blanchot, Eine Stimme von anderswo, ed. & trans. Marco Gutjahr, Vienna and Berlin: Turia + Kant, 2015, 109-150. (German)

• The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Blackwell, 1995, 340 pp, PDF. (English)

Bibliography

• On Blanchot.fr (French)

Literature

• Critique 229: "Maurice Blanchot", Paris, Jun 1966. [1]
  • Michel Foucault, "La pensée du dehors", Critique 229, Jun 1966, pp 523-546; repr. in Foucault, Dits et écrits, I, texte n°38, PDF. Printed in book form as Foucault, La pensée du dehors, Fata Morgana, 1986.
    • "Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside", in Foucault, Blanchot, Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside / Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him, New York: Zone Books, 1987, pp 7-58, PDF. (English)
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