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The Disappearance of Literature: Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No

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In this book Aaron Hillyer considers the implications of Maurice Blanchot's strange "Literature is heading to its essence, which is its disappearance." This quest leads Hillyer to stage a dialogue between the works of Blanchot and Giorgio Agamben. Despite being primary points of reference for literary theory, no significant critical work has examined their "literary" writings together. The Disappearance of Literature initiates this new trajectory through readings of Blanchot's The Unavowable Community and Agamben's The Open , two short books that harbor their most enigmatic writings. A series of related concepts―study, community, mysticism, and friendship―emerges from this pairing, and, Hillyer argues, forms the basis of a new vein of contemporary literature found in the novels and hybrid fictions of Enrique Vila-Matas, Anne Carson, and Cesar Aira.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published September 26, 2013

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January 25, 2018
ما يقوله لنا موريس بلانشو أن الجوهر الفعلي للادب هو افلاته من كل تعريف ضيق ومن كل وصف يجمده أو يحققه ، فالادب لا يكون أبدا في متناول اليد في الوقت الذي تتحدث عنه فيه ، بل يجب دائما استعادته وإعادة ابتكاره .

كما لو أننا لسنا متأكدين تماما من كون كلمتي أدب وفن تحيلان على شيء واقعي ، ممكن أو مهم . وقد قيل من قبل أن تكون فنانا هو أن تجهل أن ثمة فن سابق أو عالم ما ، لا شك أن الرسام يذهب الى متاحف الرسم ويكتسب بذلك إحساسا بواقع الرسم و التشكيل . انع يعرف الرسم ولكن لوحته تجهل ذالك

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