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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      19 January 2010
      28 September 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511597725
      9780521472135
      9780521032353
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597725
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.464kg, 276 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.359kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in French (54)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in French (54)
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    In this 1995 book, which includes a substantial introduction, Jeffrey Mehlman confronts the politically devastating resonances in the work of several leading French writers. The essays focus on the series of enigmas surrounding the 'Blanchot affair' - a scandal provoked by Mehlman's revelation in 1977 that Maurice Blanchot, one of the tutelary figures of contemporary French thought, had in the 1930s been a prominent fascist journalist. Mehlman takes the issue of Blanchot's forgotten political essays deep into the most revered - and misunderstood - of his novels, L'Arrêt de mort. Using this affair as a point of departure, Mehlman sheds light on the question of the usability of psychoanalysis for literary readings (examining, for example, Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Valéry); he also investigates the ideological and political connotations of similar literary and theoretical material. The volume as a whole provides a consistently provocative meditation on literature, ethics, and the experience of the French in World War II.

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    '… heuristic value of Mehlman's approach is undeniable …'

    Source: Contemporary European History

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